Scientists at the Wuhan lab admitted being bitten while collecting samples in a cave which is home to coronavirus-infected bats, The Daily Mail reports.
One researcher said one animal’s fangs went through his rubber gloves ‘like a needle.’
According to footage captured by a Chinese TV crew, staff inside the top-secret facility were also shown handling bats without gloves and working on ‘live viruses’ without masks in apparent breach of strict World Health Organisation safety rules on PPE and broadcast in 2017.
The revelations will raise further questions for the WHO team, which investigates the origins of following Covid-19 months of wrangling with Beijing over access to the Wuhan site.