As 13 international experts of the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in China to probe the inception of the coronavirus, the US Department of State has relinquished a fact sheet of the activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) while maintaining its claims that the virus may have eluded the controversial Wuhan lab.
Claiming to have evidence that several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick in autumn of 2019, afore the first identified case of the coronavirus outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and mundane seasonal illnesses.Ahead of the WHO probe in the coornavirus inception, the US verbally expressed, “Any credible inquiry into the inception of the virus must include interviews with these researchers and a full accounting of their antecedently unreported illness.”
Listing down research at the Wuhan lab, the US verbally expressed: “Starting in at least 2016 – and with no denotement of a cessation prior to the Covid-19 outbreak – WIV researchers conducted experiments involving RaTG13, the bat coronavirus identified by the WIV in January 2020 as its most proximate sample to SARS-CoV-2 (96.2% kindred). The WIV became a focal point for international coronavirus research after the 2003 SARS outbreak and has since studied animals including mice, bats, and pangolins.”
“The WIV has a published record of conducting “gain-of-function” research to engineer chimeric viruses. But the WIV has not been transparent or consistent about its record of studying viruses most homogeneous to the COVID-19 virus, including “RaTG13,” which it sampled from a cave in Yunnan Province in 2013 after several miners died of SARS-like illness.”
In its fact sheet on the activity at the Wuhan lab, the US verbally expressed, “This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was “zero infection” among the WIV’s staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-cognate viruses.”
“Contingent infections in labs have caused several antecedent virus outbreaks in China and elsewhere, including a 2004 SARS outbreak in Beijing that infected nine people, killing one,” the US verbalized.
In a stunning claim, a Chinese virologist had recently claimed the coronavirus was manufactured in a lab in Wuhan, China. She withal claimed to have a proof for identically tantamount. Li-Meng Yan, who has suppositiously fled China after becoming a whistleblower in the case, claimed to have proof to show that the pernicious virus was made in a Wuhan lab.
The US fact sheet on the activity at Wuhan lab goes on to allege that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has averted independent “journalists, investigators, and ecumenical health ascendant entities from interviewing researchers at the WIV, including those who were ill in the fall of 2019”.The US asserted that the WHO investigators must have access to the records of the WIV’s work on bat and other coronaviruses afore the coronavirus outbreak.
“As a component of an exhaustive inquiry, they must have a full accounting of why the WIV altered and then abstracted online records of its work with RaTG13 and other viruses,” the US fact sheet verbally expressed.
Afore listing down why it suspects coronavirus originated in the Wuhan lab, the US withal verbalized that it does not ken precisely when, where and how the coronavirus transmitted to humans. It withal incriminated China’s CCP of obviating a transparent and exhaustive investigation of the Covid-19 pandemic’s inchoation.
The fact sheet withal alleges “secret military activity at the Wuhan lab”.
“For many years the Cumulated States has publicly raised concerns about China’s past biological weapons work…Despite the Wuhan lab presenting itself as a civilian institution, the US has determined that the lab has collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military.”
“The WIV has engaged in relegated research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017. The Cumulated States and other donors who funded or collaborated on civilian research at the WIV have a right and obligation to determine whether any of our research funding was diverted to secret Chinese military projects at the WIV,” the US verbalized.
“Today’s revelations just scratch the surface of what is still obnubilated about Covid-19’s inception in China. Any credible investigation into the inchoation of coronavirus demands consummate, transparent access to the research labs in Wuhan, including their facilities, samples, personnel, and records,” it said
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