TOKYO, May 7 (China Daily/ANN) - Japanese Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo has refuted claims that China manufactured the novel coronavirus, saying those rumors are "dangerously distracting."
"I am greatly saddened that my name and that of Kyoto University have been used to spread false accusations and misinformation," the 78-year-old Japanese professor said in a statement released by Kyoto University on April 27.
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