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Read the State Department cable that launched claims that coronavirus escaped from Chinese lab

Updated Jul 17, 2020 at 3:50 PM EST

The State Department has released an internal cable from 2018 detailing the concerns of U.S. embassy officials in China about a lack of adequately trained personnel at a virology lab in Wuhan, the city that later became the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China. 

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The State Department has released an internal cable from 2018 detailing the concerns of U.S. embassy officials in China about a lack of adequately trained personnel at a virology lab in Wuhan, the city that later became the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.