Amidst the World Health Organization (WHO) calling for China to allow for the phase two probe into the origin of Covid-19, a top Texas Republican on the House of Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael McCaul, on August 1 said it had obtained new evidence that China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) created the virus and dismissed the claim that it originated from bats.

According to the new evidence, scientists at the WIV have been able to genetically modify Coronaviruses without leaving a trace of that modification since 2005.