Should China's top researchers face sanctions on suspicion of developing bioweapons?
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Atul Aneja ( IANS)
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Tue, May 11 2021 19:36 IST
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New Delhi, May 11: The May 7 article in The Australian newspaper revealing that bioweapons were on the radar of Chinese academics and military scientists since 2015 has triggered a legitimate demand for sanctioning Chinas science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) researchers.
The daily brought into global spotlight the existence of a Chinese military paper that discusses the potential of bioweapons based on SARS coronaviruses. Covid-19 is also a mutant of SARS coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. The findings by the Australian have reopened the debate about the origins of Covid-19, driving holes in the theory that a wet market in Wuhan, a stone's throw from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was the ground zero from where Covid-19 radiated across the globe. Reuters is reporting that the virus has already killed nearly 6.9 million people across the world-- more than double the number officially recorded, according to an estimate by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).