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CHINESE VIROLOGIST’S CLAIM OF CORONAVIRUS BEING MADE IN WUHAN LAB HAS FEW TAKERS

ANI / Updated: Oct 14, 2020, 13:56 IST
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NEW DELHI: In a stunning revelation, a Chinese virologist has claimed that the
coronavirus was created in a government-controlled laboratory in Wuhan, the
original epicentre of the outbreak and offered scientific evidence to back her
claims.
In an exclusive conversation with 'Loose Women', a British talk show, Dr Li-Meng
Yan, the scientist said she was assigned to investigate "new pneumonia" in
Wuhan. She said that she discovered a cover-up operation regarding coronavirus
during her investigation.
Dr Li-Meng, who specialised in virology and immunology at the Hong Kong School
of Public Health, said she conducted two researches on new pneumonia in China
first between December and early January and the second one in mid-January,
before fleeing to the US from Hong Kong.
"I decided to report this development to my supervisor, who is also a World
Health Organisation (WHO) consultant. There was no response from the WHO and my
supervisor. Everyone warned me that do not cross the right line and keep silence
or else I would be made to disappear," she said.
The virologist said she had expected her supervisor to "do the right thing on
behalf of the Chinese government and WHO".
Several countries, including the US, have criticised both China and WHO for
covering-up the severity of the coronavirus outbreak.
Dr Li-Meng revealed she had contacted a famous Chinese YouTuber in the US. The
expose, which was in Chinese, said that the Chinese Communist Party was covering
up the COVID-19 crisis and there was a human-to-human transmission of the virus.
She also said that coronavirus is a "high-mutant virus" which will become an
outbreak soon and the seafood market in Wuhan and the virus's intermediate hosts
were just a "smokescreen".
The doctor then made the stunning revelation that the "virus is not from nature"
and it was from a "laboratory controlled by the Chinese government in Wuhan".
"This is based on the China Military Institute that discovered and owned some
bad coronavirus named CC45 and ZXC41. Based on that, after lab modification
becomes a novel virus," she said.
Asked if she had scientific proof about the revelation, Dr Li-Meng said she has
intelligence from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
local doctors and other people across China. "These are the truths and all other
things were covered up," she added.
The virologist said she is working on a scientific report with a small group of
top scientists across the world and will be published soon.
"There are two reports. The first one will come in several days and it will tell
the people all the evidence," she said, adding that the coronavirus is a highly
contagious and a dangerous virus.
Asked whether she was worried about her safety after fleeing Hong Kong, the
doctor remarked she wanted to deliver the message as soon as possible to the
world.
"It was very scary at that time. But I had to do it because I am a doctor and I
cannot see it happen. If I do not tell the truth to the world, I will be
regretful. So, this foundation which is based in New York helped me to secretly
leave Hong Kong. They help people who are against the Chinese government," she
added.
Giving an insight into her unpublished scientific report, Dr Li-Meng said
anyone, even those who do not have knowledge of biology, can read it.
"The genome sequence is like our human fingerprint. So, based on this you can
recognise and identify this thing. So, I used the evidence existing in the
genome sequence of Sars-CoV-2 to tell people why this came from China and why
they are the only ones who made it," she stated.
She further said, "You can check, identify and verify it by yourself. It is a
critical thing for us to know the origins of the virus. If not, it will be
life-threatening for everyone."
Many scientists have disproved this theory as they feel the similarity of the
two coronaviruses originating from bats being discovered in a Chinese lab could
be a sheer coincidence.
An earlier version of this article had some inaccurate information, a correction
has been made regarding the same.


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