The last remaining foreigner at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, an Australian scientist, has stated that she never contracted COVID-19 and does not believe the novel coronavirus escaped the facility.

Danielle Anderson, a 42-year-old bat-borne virus expert who worked at the institute's BSL-4 facility until November 2019, was interviewed by Bloomberg News on Sunday.

"It wasn't that it was uninteresting," Anderson said, "but it was a typical lab that worked in the same manner as any other high-containment lab."

"What people are saying is simply not accurate."

After initially earning backing from Republican politicians like Sens. Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham, the hypothesis that the new coronavirus leaked from the lab has risen in popularity this year.

The Wall Street Journal reported in late May that three Wuhan lab researchers were so sick in November 2019 — a month before the novel coronavirus was first discovered in Wuhan — that they had to go to the hospital.

Days later, US intelligence services were given 90 days to "increase their efforts to acquire and evaluate evidence" about the coronavirus's origins by President Joe Biden.

Anderson, on the other hand, told Bloomberg that no one at the Wuhan lab was sick at the time.

"I assume I would have been sick if people were sick—and I wasn't," she explained.

"Before I was vaccinated, I was tested for coronavirus in Singapore, and I had never had it."

Anderson claimed she reconnected with many of her Wuhan colleagues during a conference in Singapore in December, and that none of them mentioned anything unusual going on at the lab.

Anderson stated, "There was no talk." "Scientists are chatty and enthusiastic. From my perspective, there was nothing unusual going on at the time that would lead you to believe something was wrong."

Anderson also told Bloomberg that the lab had strict safety standards in place and that she didn't think the virus had escaped.

According to Bloomberg, Anderson and her coworkers had to complete 45 hours of "very, very extensive" training before being allowed to operate alone in the lab.

"On this magnitude, no one could have predicted the pandemic," she said.

"The virus was in the right place at the right time, and everything was in position for this disaster to happen."

When significant catastrophes happen in laboratories, though, viruses can slip out, according to Anderson.

"I'm not foolish enough to say I'm writing this off completely," she told Bloomberg.

Officials from the World Health Organization earlier stated that a coronavirus release from the Wuhan lab was highly unlikely. But, as Insider's Aylin Woodward pointed out, even if a leak did occur, that doesn't guarantee it was planned.