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One of Britain’s top scientists is to be interviewed under oath by the US Congress over concerns that he was at the centre of a cover-up about the origins of Covid, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Sir Jeremy Farrar was among a group of scientists who initially claimed the coronavirus could have been man-made in a lab in the Chinese city Wuhan, where the pandemic began.
But after discussions with US officials and other leading scientists in February 2020, he changed his position, dismissing suggestions that the virus was made in a lab as a conspiracy theory.
He will now be questioned over his role in ‘apparent conflicts of interest’ and ‘suppression of scientific discourse’.
Amid an investigation into the US government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic carried out for the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Sir Jeremy will be subject to an on-the-record interview about his knowledge about the origins of the disease.
The committee has also demanded he provide all documents related to his discussions with senior figures on the subject.
An order sent to Sir Jeremy reads: ‘Documents in the custody of the National Institutes of Health reveal how a group of scientists, including you, initially believed Covid-19 to be man-made before reversing course and claiming otherwise following discussions with senior government health officials.’
It adds: ‘This sequence of events suggests a possible co-ordinated effort to conceal evidence pointing to a lab leak in Wuhan.’