EDITORIAL | As scientists around the world try to find the origin of the virus, which appeared in Wuhan at the end of 2019, the lack of cooperation from the Chinese authorities is obvious.
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"Was this a laboratory accident? Could the current pandemic be linked to the contamination, in 2012, in Mojiang county, of half a dozen people, suffering from severe pneumonia with complications similar to those of Covid-19?"
"At this stage, no one is in a position to favor this or that track, for lack of being able to investigate under scientifically satisfactory conditions."
"More worrying, Beijing insisted on keeping control of this [WHO] mission. The Chinese authorities have co-opted the participants, who will only be allowed to work on Chinese hypotheses already developed and validated by the authorities."
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