A memo received via Bloomberg News said an earlier review found the Wuhan lab didn’t comply very well with federal regulations. The lab also did not send documents about its safety and security measures to U. S. officials.
“This action will ensure that the [Wuhan Institute of Virology] does not get federal funding dollars,” an HHS spokesperson said, according to Bloomberg.
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The workers’ security corps stand guard outdoors at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus scale at the Wuhan Institute in central China’s Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images, file)
The U. S. government While the U. S. government awarded the Wuhan lab $1. 4 million between 2014 and 2019, the U. S. Agency gave the U. S. agency $1. 4 million in the U. S. U. S. Department of International Development (USAID) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Last month, it revealed that Chinese scientist Ben Hu, one of 3 researchers who suffered from a mysterious illness just before the coronavirus pandemic, was partially funded through US grants.
The revelation potentially lends credence to the COVID-19 lab leak theory, as opposed to the theory that the virus started in a market.
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This aerial view shows the P4 laboratory (L center) at the Wuhan Institute of Virology campus in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province, on May 27, 2020. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP Getty Images, File)
One of Hu’s U. S. -funded allocationsHe investigated whether animal viruses can infect humans and cause a pandemic. Another assignment studied coronaviruses in bats.
Chinese officials have argued in the past that a Wuhan man who fell ill on Dec. 8 was the first official case of COVID-19, but all three Wuhan scientists became ill with the mysterious illness in November.
The workers’ safety force gathers near the front of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a stop by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan, China, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/NG Han Guan, File)
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Brie Stimson of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.