The Chinese government has come under fresh scrutiny over accusations that officials scrubbed crucial online data about the Wuhan Institute of Virology – the controversial laboratory suspected of being the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the Daily Mail, “hundreds of pages of information” spanning over 300 studies conducted by WIV have been wiped from a database, including some which discuss passing diseases from animals to humans – which were published online by the state-run National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and are no longer available.