Records that could help shed light on the origins of Covid-19 were deleted from a US database at the request of Chinese scientists, American officials have confirmed.
A team of academics from Wuhan, where the first documented cases of Covid-19 appeared, submitted sequences of the virus which causes the disease to a US-based archive in March 2020. Three months later, however, they asked for those sequences to be removed and the data were deleted, the US National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday, confirming the results of an investigation by the American biologist Jesse Bloom.
“Submitting investigators hold the rights to their data and can request withdrawal of the data,” NIH said in a statement.
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