Beijing: The Covid-19 pandemic emerged from a genetically modified virus that leaked from the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), according to an investigation by the US House of Representatives Republicans into the origins of Covid-19, released on Monday.
The report by Representative Michael McCaul, a top Republican at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is based on open-source material, the Hill.com reported. The report also raises concern that the lab was conducting “gain-of-function” research in an unsafe environment.
Once dismissed as conspiracy, the lab leak theory has recently gained steam with scientists across the world demanding fresh probes into the Covid-19 origins.
