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Source: Apple Daily #Aug11

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#NBC Vindicates Wuhan Lab, China Aid Co-funder Suspects Reasons for Granted Access

NBC reported from Wuhan on Monday the latest updates on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where many speculated was the origin of the coronavirus. The news agency emphasized that it was the very first foreign news agency to be granted access to the institute since the outbreak of the epidemic. The report quoted Wang Yanyi, Director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as saying that the institute was unfortunately targeted as a scapegoat for the origin of the virus.

Bob Fu, Co-founder of #ChinaAid in the US, questioned why NBC was granted access and pointed out that #MSNBC has not published other Chinese or Hong Kong news on the same day, including the arrest of prominent activists under the national security law and the police raid at Apple Daily’s headquarter.

Bob Fu’s Facebook page shows photos of him taken with Agnes Chow, who was arrested for alleged offences under the national security law, and Nathan Law, who is in exile in the UK, as well as photos of the arrest of Jimmy Lai, founder of Next Digital. Fu stated that the high profile arrest of pro-democracy leaders like Martin Lee, Chow, Lai, Lai’s two sons and four other Next Digital executives under the national security law signalled the death of Hong Kong’s freedom of press and rule of law.

Source: Apple Daily #Aug11

https://hk.appledaily.com/us/20200811/LQH24VGBGZB6XCYVQFQHVROV2M/
British media: China deletes 300 studies from Wuhan Institute of Virology, including all research By “bat expert” Shi Zhengli

British media The Mail on Sunday found that many important materials related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China published by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) are no longer available online, and are suspected to have been removed by the authority, causing a new round of controversy over suspected concealment of the epidemic by the Chinese government.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology is suspected to be the source of the virus, and hundreds of pages of information have been deleted, including the research conducted by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and research data of Shi Zhengli, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology Research Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases. The 56-year-old Shi Zhengli, known as “batwoman”, who often collecting samples for research from bat caves, is regarded as a key figure who knows the source of the virus. The report pointed out that more than 300 studies published by NSFC, including those on animal-to-human diseases, were no longer available. Dozens of studies that were available online were deleted by the state-run institution, including research by Shi Zhengli.

According to the report, studies related to the risk of spreading the SARS-like coronavirus from bats and investigation into human pathogens carried by bats have disappeared, both of which are regards as importing clues to the source of the virus. It revealed China's attempted to hinder the investigation into the source of the virus. Iain Duncan Smith, a Former Leader of the British Conservative Party and member of Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, pointed out that China is trying to hide the evidences, “It is vital that there is a thorough investigation into what happened but China seems to be doing all it can to stop that happening,” he said.

Source: Apple Daily #Jan11

https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20210111/FEZPFC5ABNGWBLVVPO52DKN3SQ/

#COVID19 #SARS #Virus #China #WuhanInstituteOfVirology #ShiZhengli #Bat #CrossSpeciesInfection #NaturalScienceFoundationOfChina #NSFC #TheMailOnSunday
Pompeo Reveal Researchers at Wuhan Institute of Virology Got Infected as Early as Fall 2019, urging WHO to Conduct Thorough Investigation.

The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued a statement yesterday (January 15) saying the U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) have developed the symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019. The U.S. government stressed that a pandemic could have been avoided and that any responsible country would have invited World Health Organization (WHO) experts within days of the outbreak, but China refused offer of help. "Until the CCP allows a full and thorough accounting of what happened in Wuhan, it is only a matter of time until China births another pandemic and inflicts it on the Chinese people, and the world," he stated.

Pompeo issued a statement saying that a WHO investigation team arrived in China this week to trace the source of the outbreak. The U.S. government took the opportunity to share new information about WIV in 2019 and called on the WHO to conduct a thorough investigation into origin of COVID-19. He said the U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers from the institute have developed the same symptoms as COVID-19 in the fall of 2019.

The statement said the WIV had studied the bat virus strain RaTG13 as early as 2016, which was 96.2% similar to the COVID-19 virus identified by the Institute in January 2020. The U.S. government said the institute's work has lacked transparency since the outbreak and suspected it may have been involved in research that enhanced the virus' transmissibility and lethality.

Source: The Stand News #Jan16

#US #USSecretatyofState #MikePompeo #WuhanInstituteofVirology #WIV #COVID19 #WorldHealthOrganization #WHO

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CCTV Again Questions the US Having "an Ulterior Motive" for Joining Wuhan Military World in 2019 Without Seeking Gold

With more than 200 million COVID-19 infections, the whole world is trying to trace the source of the pandemic. While some in the US have suspected the virus was the leakage from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China continues to wage a public opinion war, questioning the US to be the source of the virus. Following 25 million signatures collected by the Chinese tabloid Global Times, accusing US Fort Detrick laboratory of leaking the virus, official China media CCTV published another article on the 11th on the "Wuhan Military World theory", which proposed that a US athlete joining the game to be the "patient zero" and had transmitted the virus to China.

However, foreign media, such as CNN, has dismissed this claim. China-labelled "Patient zero" Maatje Benassi said that she has never been diagnosed in COVID-19 but has become a talking point of Chinese netizens, with her home address posted on the internet. "It's like waking up from a bad dream going into a nightmare day after day", she said.

Source: Stand News #Aug12

https://bit.ly/387UW67

#COVID19 #WuhanMilitaryWorld #WuhanInstituteOfVirology #FortDetrick #PatientZero #MaatjeBenassi #GlobalTimes #CCTV #CNN #China #US