Authors’ reply: Independent investigation may be more reliable in the event with political nature

We welcome their additional suggestion that the government should publish potential causes for and implications of the additional outbreak beyond the quarantine to the international scientific community so that similar outbreaks may be swiftly prevented. However, given the absence of government‐driven publications, we published this report based on our independent investigation, which may be more reliable considering the inherently sensitive and political nature of the events. [Image: see text]