The Wuhan Institute of Virology — the Chinese lab being investigated for possibly leaking the coronavirus — has been authorized to receive US taxpayer funding for animal research through 2024, according to a report.
Prior to the outbreak, researchers at the lab had been studying bat-based coronaviruses in a project partially supported by $600,000 in US government funding routed from the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, the Daily Caller reported.
EcoHealth president Peter Daszak — the only American member of a World Health Organization delegation that recently visited China to probe the origins of the pandemic — said the US should accept WHO’s preliminary conclusion that it was highly unlikely the deadly bug could have leaked from the lab, according to the outlet.
https://nypost.com/2021/02/19/china-lab-probed-for-covid-to-get-us-funds-until-2024-report/