The first patient to be diagnosed with the new type of coronavirus was not a market employee, as reported by the Chinese government, but worked in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fox News reported the information based on its sources.
"The patient zero who got diagnosed with COVID-19 worked in the laboratory in Wuhan from where the epidemic spread," the channel said in a statement.
A source told Fox News that the bat infected the lab staff, who did not notice it on time and transferred it to the local population. The second source of the TV channel accuses China of hiding the evidence.
However, the TV channel states that Wuhan's laboratory was not engaged in the development of biological weapons and only wanted to demonstrate the scientific results of virus research.
China responded to the Fox News. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country, Zhao Lijian, this version is not true, and there is no evidence to prove it.
"The pandemic is a common enemy for all humanity. We can only defeat it by concentrating the efforts of the international community," he said.
