Covid-Like Virus Was Sent to Wuhan in 2013, Sunday Times Says

The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Photographer: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
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Virus samples sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology seven years ago closely resemble Covid-19, according to a report in the Sunday Times that highlights unanswered questions about the origins of the global pandemic.

Scientists in 2013 sent frozen samples to the Wuhan lab from a bat-infested former copper mine in southwest China after six men who had been clearing out bat feces there contracted a severe pneumonia, the newspaper said.