{"id":42001,"date":"2022-02-27T06:02:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T21:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/26\/coronavirus-wuhan-market-chinese-lab-studies"},"modified":"2022-02-27T06:02:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T21:02:46","slug":"coronavirus-came-from-wuhan-market-and-not-chinese-lab-twin-studies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42001","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus came from Wuhan market and not Chinese lab, twin studies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two studies released by scientists but yet to be published in journals say virus did not emerge from  Wuhan Institute of Virology<\/p>\n<p>International scientists on Saturday released <a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/6291628#.YhqHhhPMJHc\">two<\/a> major <a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/6299116#.YhqHShPMJHd\">studies<\/a> which one participant said made it \u201cextraordinarily clear\u201d a market in Wuhan, China was the source of the coronavirus which fueled the Covid-19 pandemic \u2013 and not a Chinese government laboratory, a theory championed in the US by rightwing campaigners, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/31\/opinion\/media-lab-leak-theory.html\">columnists<\/a> and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The question of where Covid-19 came from and how it spread has proved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-is-more-about-politics-than-science\">divisive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/26\/coronavirus-wuhan-market-chinese-lab-studies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two studies released by scientists but yet to be published in journals say virus did not emerge from  Wuhan Institute of VirologyInternational scientists on Saturday released two major studies which one participant said made it \u201cextraordinarily clear\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":508,"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":[50,1066,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-us-news","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\/42001","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\/508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42059,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42001\/revisions\/42059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}