Number 10 described the move as disappointing , insisting that it was vital the probe happens.
Tory MP and founder of Britain s China Research Group, Tom Tugendhat, accused Beijing of shameful behaviour . He said the failure to investigate puts everyone at risk of a repeat, and particularly those who are closest - the Chinese people.
And Sari Haven, of the Mercator Institute for China Studies think-tank, dismissed the regime s claim that a visa issue led to the team being denied entry. She said: Of course the decoy narrative becomes more difficult to maintain when the WHO team is snooping around.
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Donald Trump‘s respected Deputy National Security Adviser, told politicians from around the world that even China’s leaders now openly admit their previous claims that the virus originated in a Wuhan market are false.
Mr Pottinger said that the latest intelligence points to the virus leaking from the top-secret Wuhan Institute of Virology, 11 miles from the market, saying: ‘There is a growing body of evidence that the lab is likely the most credible source of the virus.’
Matthew Pottinger, who is President Donald Trump’s respected Deputy National Security Adviser, says the most ‘credible’ theory about the origin of coronavirus is that it escaped from from the top-secret Wuhan Institute of Virology in China”
Yet we still know little about how and why the virus spread with such devastating consequences.
It can almost certainly be traced to bats. But we do not know how this pathogen – having evolved an extraordinary ability to infect, causing such damage to different bodily organs – made the jump into human beings.
At last, a World Health Organisation investigation is under way into the origins of the coronavirus, but it is accused of meekly pandering to China s agenda by recruiting patsy scientists and relying on Beijing s dubious data.
Now there is growing clamour from experts around the world that no stone should be left unturned during this inquiry – and that it must include one key element of a hunt which has all the hallmarks of a thriller novel.
One of America s most senior government officials says the most credible theory about the origin of coronavirus is that it escaped from a laboratory in China.
Matthew Pottinger, who is President Donald Trump s respected Deputy National Security Adviser, told politicians from around the world that even China s leaders now openly admit their previous claims that the virus originated in a Wuhan market are false.
Mr Pottinger said that the latest intelligence points to the virus leaking from the top-secret Wuhan Institute of Virology, 11 miles from the market, saying: There is a growing body of evidence that the lab is likely the most credible source of the virus.