{"id":55586,"date":"2023-05-30T22:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/30\/covid-lab-leak-theory-should-not-be-ruled-out-chinese-scientist"},"modified":"2023-05-30T22:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:51:05","slug":"covid-lab-leak-theory-should-not-be-ruled-out-top-chinese-scientist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55586","title":{"rendered":"Covid lab leak theory should not be ruled out, top Chinese scientist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virologist George Gao also states for first time that China has investigated claim virus came from a laboratory<\/p>\n<p>The former director of China\u2019s Center for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) has said the lab leak theory for the origins of Covid-19 should not be discounted.<\/p>\n<p>George Gao, an internationally respected virologist, also said another branch of the Chinese government had investigated the lab leak theory \u2013 the first such acknowledgment that some kind of official investigation took place. \u201cThey haven\u2019t found wrongdoing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/30\/covid-lab-leak-theory-should-not-be-ruled-out-chinese-scientist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virologist George Gao also states for first time that China has investigated claim virus came from a laboratoryThe former director of China\u2019s Center for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) has said the lab leak theory for the origins of Covid-19 shoul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,1066,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","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\/55586","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55587,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55586\/revisions\/55587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}