{"id":32606,"date":"2021-05-30T18:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/30\/covid-team-interview-wuhan-market-virologist-animals"},"modified":"2021-05-30T18:42:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T09:42:04","slug":"covid-investigators-must-interview-wuhan-stall-owners-says-virologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32606","title":{"rendered":"Covid investigators must interview Wuhan stall owners, says virologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to find origin of coronavirus \u2018must look at what animals were in the market in late 2019\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A leading scientist has called for stallholders at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan to be interviewed in any further investigation of the Covid-19 epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Eddie Holmes has joined a growing chorus of voices calling for further investigation into the source of the pandemic. The US president, Joe Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/27\/biden-china-coronavirus-origins-beijing\">has ordered the US intelligence community to intensify its efforts<\/a> to study the origins of coronavirus, as the theory that the virus might have come from a lab in Wuhan gains traction. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/30\/covid-team-interview-wuhan-market-virologist-animals\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Efforts to find origin of coronavirus \u2018must look at what animals were in the market in late 2019\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA leading scientist has called for stallholders at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan to be int&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1806,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,914,299,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32622,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606\/revisions\/32622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}