Source: China – South China Morning PostA leading US government agency has defended previous funding for Chinese research into bat coronaviruses, saying the pathogens in question could not have caused the Covid-19 pandemic.Funds from the National Institutes of Health – which were given to the US non-profit EcoHealth Alliance for research conducted with the Wuhan Institute of Virology – have come under increasing scrutiny in light of the theory that the virus could have escaped from the Chinese lab and questions about whether the…Read More