China lab suspected of Covid leak stripped of US funding for violating biosafety rules
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
I thought this as well (massive safety events being a pretty normal thing, after all) until last year when the wet market swab data was finally analyzed. (After apparently being leaked? Accidentally? Accidentally on purpose?)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
"Both early lineages of SARS-CoV-2 were geographically associated with the market"