China Responds to Report of Wuhan Lab Staff Becoming Sick Before COVID-19 Outbreak

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, China, on Feb. 3, 2021. Ng Han Guan/AP Photo

The Chinese regime denied on Monday that lab staff in Wuhan were infected with COVID-19 before the pandemic, in response to a question about a report by The Wall Street Journal.

On May 23, the Journal reported on an undisclosed U.S. intelligence report about three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) who sought hospital care with COVID-19-like symptoms in November 2019—one month before the onset of the communist regime’s claims of “patient zero.”