Recently, a professor named Ralph S. Baric from the University of North Carolina attracted widespread attention for working on coronavirus-related researches for a long time. In a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ambassador Chen Xu, permanent representative of China to the UN Office at Geneva, stated that the laboratories in urgent need of a "transparent investigation" were at the University of North Carolina and Fort Detrick. Baric's name has been mentioned frequently in press releases by China's Foreign Ministry.