{"id":31961,"date":"2022-01-11T21:21:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=31961"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:21:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:21:01","slug":"covid-19-us-senate-bill-would-sanction-chinese-officials-blocking-inquiry-into-coronavirus-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=31961","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: US Senate bill would sanction Chinese officials blocking inquiry into coronavirus origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA new US Senate bill would punish Chinese officials for preventing an investigation into whether the Covid-19 pandemic could be tied to an infectious disease laboratory in Wuhan.Introduced on Monday by Marco Rubio of Florida and 15 other Republican senators, the bill steps into a debate among scientists, politicians and governments about the hypothesis that, rather than being zoonotic \u2013 a natural virus that jumped from animals to humans \u2013 Covid-19 somehow escaped from a lab. The furore\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3163025\/us-senate-bill-would-apply-sanctions-chinese-officials-blocking-inquiry?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA new US Senate bill would punish Chinese officials for preventing an investigation into whether the Covid-19 pandemic could be tied to an infectious&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":31962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}