Top British scientist Sir Jeremy Farrar is to be questioned by the US Congress on questions about the origins of the coronavirus that causes Covid 19.
Sir Jeremy, a tropical disease expert, is head of the Wellcome Trust, which allocates millions of pounds a year to medical research, and is a former member of the government’s scientific advisory group SAGE.
He was initially among a group of scientists who said the Covid virus could have originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, reports the post.
He later signed an article in the medical journal The Lancet saying the idea that Covid was man-made was “implausible” and a conspiracy theory.
The US Committee on Oversight and Reform has asked Sir Jeremy to appear before them and answer questions about the files.
An order sent to Sir Jeremy said: “Documents in the custody of the National Institutes of Health show how a group of scientists, including you, initially believed Covid-19 was man-made before reversing course and after discussions with Senior government health officials claimed otherwise.”
Sir Jeremy told the Mail: “The scientific evidence continues to point to SARS-CoV-2 [the Covid-19 virus] Animal-to-human transition as the most likely scenario.”
