The United States confirms that Wuhan virus sequences have been removed from the database

The details of the genetic composition of some of the first coronavirus samples in China have been removed from an American database where they were initially stored at the request of Chinese researchers, confirmed American officials, adding to the concerns about the secrets surrounding the secret. ‘epidemic and its origins.

The data, first submitted to the US-based sequence, the reading archives in March 2020, were “requested to be withdrawn” by the same researcher three months later in June, the National Institutes of Health In the United States reported in a declaration Wednesday. The genetic sequences came from the Chinese city of Wuhan where the hatching of Covid-19 was initially concentrated.

The reason in account at the time of the withdrawal was that the sequence information had been updated and were subjected to another database, said the agency. The researcher requested that the data be removed “to avoid the control problems of the version,” he said.

“Submit investigators holds the rights of their data and may request the withdrawal of the data,” the agency said. “NIHs can not speculate on the reason beyond the declared intentions of the investigator.”

The disappearance of the genetic sequences of the database raises questions on what the Wuhan epidemic was shielded, said Jesse Bloom of Jesse, who announced his discovery that he was missing earlier this week. Bloom, who then retrieved the information, said he did not provide definitive details on the origin or how the virus is native.

Politicians and scientists from around the world have grown more and more frustrated by China’s efforts to scroll through an investigation into the origins of coronavirus, especially the possibility that it was running away from a Wuhan laboratory. Although the World Health Organization’s team of experts visited China earlier this year for an investigation, they were not allowed to access raw data and conclusively – that the virus is probably Crossing animals – has been criticized as premature.

US President Joe Biden ordered American Intelligence Agencies to probe the question again, while China was denied intentioned that the Wuhan laboratory was linked to the epidemic.

“I do not think we can say a lot with great confidence,” Bloom said, evolving biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, referring to the origins of the virus. He added that his conclusions “remind us how much we know little.”