Despite being headquartered in Fremont, California, Gotion, Inc. is wholly under the ownership and jurisdiction of Gotion High-Tech from Hefei, an eastern Chinese city.
As debate around the coronavirus "lab leak hypothesis" continues, fueling speculation as to the extent human intention or error contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, questions are raised about whether Pfizer's laboratories in Mumbai and Johannesburg are implicated in the emergence of new COVID variants like Eris.