China's intent to study bioweapons reopens Covid origin controversy
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Atul Aneja ( IANS)
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Tue, May 11 2021 15:51 IST
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China's intent to study bioweapons reopens Covid origin controversy. (India Narrative). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 11: Recent findings in a report in an Australian daily has yet again reinforced the call that international investigators must dig deeper to rule out whether Covid-19 is a made-in-China bioweapon.
The controversy about Covid-19 origins has resurfaced after the Weekend Australian newspaper revealed that Chinese scientists were thinking about bioweapons, visualising a Word War-3 scenario.
The daily cited a Chinese government document which discussed the weaponisation of SARS coronavirus. Titled the Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons, the 2015 paper was authored by Chinese scientists, Chinese public health officials and members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).