U.S. Republican politician Michael McCaul says his party has been investigating the origins of the Corona COVID-19 virus. He noted that the Chinese government was involved in a massive effort to cover up the true origin of the Corona virus.
He said that the Corona virus was created in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. "They play with fire. They manipulate it genetically in the lab," he was quoted as saying by Fox News, Tuesday (8/8/2021).
In the Republican investigation, it was alleged there was some evidence that the Corona virus originated from the Wuhan Laboratory. This suggests that the virus may have spread in China by September 2019, before the WHO and the Chinese government officially announced it later that year.
In September according to this report, the genetic sequence database in the Wuhan laboratory offline suddenly in the middle of the night. McCaul believes that’s because they’re trying to cover up something big.
Later satellite imaging at the time reported increased activity at the hospital near the Wuhan Laboratory. A few months after the coronavirus outbreak, Wuhan Laboratories called for a major overhaul of its air safety and waste system, even though it had only been in operation for less than two years.
McCaul added that in October 2019, there was a World Military Games event where 9,000 visitors came from overseas. According to data from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, some of them returned home and experienced flu -like symptoms.
"We now believe that it is time to dismiss the Wuhan wet market as a source (of the coronavirus). We also believe that most of the evidence suggests that the virus leaked from WIV and occurred moments before Sept. 12, 2019," the Republican report said.
Of course, the truth of the report still needs to be investigated further, especially since most scientists believe that the Corona virus originated in nature with bats as its source. China has also repeatedly denied that the Wuhan Laboratory was the culprit
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