Ernst presses China on whether COVID originated from Wuhan lab: ‘The world deserves answers’

Ernst presses China on whether COVID originated from Wuhan lab: ‘The world deserves answers’

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Iowa Republican Joni Ernst demanded Saturday that China “stop their cover-up” of the origins of the coronavirus and called for a complete investigation to prevent a “recurrence.”

“The Communist Party of China refuses to fully cooperate with efforts to learn more about the origins of the deadly coronavirus,” Ernst said in a statement to Fox News Saturday. “The world deserves answers—and that includes determining whether it originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Ernst’s comments are just the latest from Republicans on the Hill calling on the Biden administration to take charge in uncovering the true origin of the virus that has infected over 157 million people globally and killed nearly 3.3 million.