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China wants Nobel Prize for Wuhan lab suspected in COVID outbreak

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American Military News by Ryan Morgan June 22, 2021

Last week the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) —the Chinese virology lab that is suspected by some to be the source of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak — is one of the candidates for its Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize. After the announcement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian went a step further and called for the WIV to receive one of the top awards in medical research, the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

In a Thursday press conference, Zhao criticized growing international scrutiny of the WIV and compared the WIV’s sequencing of COVID-19 to the effort to sequence human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus behind the AIDS epidemic.

“The genome sequence of COVID-19 was first identified by Chinese scientists, but that does not mean Wuhan is the source of the coronavirus, nor can it be inferred that the coronavirus was made by Chinese scientists,” Zhao said. “If those that first publish high-quality viral genomes were to be accused of making the virus, then professor Luc Montagnier, who first discovered Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) would be considered the culprit of AIDS rather than awarded the Nobel Prize, and Mr. Louis Pasteur, who discovered microbes, would be held accountable for the disease-causing bacteria all around the globe.”

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