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Coronavirus related work China demand for Nobel Prize


Flashback

Since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2019, China's Wuhan Lab has been in the centre of criticism. Several theories have been proposed, one after the other, that the lab is the source of SARS-CoV-2. International media outlets and a few Chinese virologists have claimed that China was experimenting with bats in order to create bioweapons that might have mistakenly escaped, but there has been no tangible proof to back up the accusations.
The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) asked for a "timely, transparent, expert-led, and science-based WHO-convened" investigation into the origins of COVID-19 earlier this month, including, as the experts' report advised, China. 

Biden said: "I think China has to start to act more responsibly in terms of international norms on human rights and transparency. Transparency matters across the board."


Current Ask by China

The Wuhan Institute of Virology was awarded the Chinese Academy of Sciences' "Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize" in 2021 for its involvement in finding the virus's genome. China has requested that the Nobel Prize be granted to its Wuhan laboratory for its contributions to coronavirus research. Zhau Lijian, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Affairs Ministry, recently stated that China's Wuhan Lab deserved a Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on the coronavirus.

How World going to React??

A Chinese virologist, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, was one of the first to assert that the coronavirus had been leaked from the Wuhan lab. China's request for a Nobel Prize nomination for Wuhan Lab seems absurd. As more evidence becomes available, it is becoming clear that the COVID-19 pandemic started in Wuhan, as well as the labs involved in the virus's gain-of-function alteration.

Many foreign leaders have blamed China, either directly or indirectly, for the spread of the deadly corona virus around the world. Many economies have asked for compensation for the enormous losses that the global community has suffered. Even China initially being not so transparent with WHO officials in the search for the cause, many economies will find it difficult to accept this request.



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