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Based on the latest information collected by the US State Department, Chinese military scientists reportedly looked at weaponising coronavirus five years before the Covid-19 pandemic and may have anticipated a World War III waged by biological weapons. The papers allegedly reveal Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) commanders made the sinister prediction, according to the UK’s The Sun ‘newspaper, citing sources first published by’ The Australian’.
Dr. Le-Meng Yan, a Chinese virologist and former post-doctoral fellow at Hong Kong University, claimed that the coronavirus was developed in a research lab in China in a paper published in September last year. It was discovered after a substantial investment by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and was launched as a bio-weapon from a lab.
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Beijing: China on Monday termed as “outright lies” the media reports that its military scientists investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and said it is an attempt by the US to smear the country.
The US State Department reportedly obtained the “bombshell” documents, which were written by Chinese military scientists and senior public health officials in 2015 as part of their own investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
According to media reports, which referred to the documents obtained by the US officials, scientists of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic and may have predicted a World War III fought with biological weapons.
Outright lies : China on reports that its military scientists probed weaponising COVID-19 in 2015
The US State Department reportedly obtained the bombshell documents, which were written by Chinese military scientists and senior public health officials in 2015 as part of their own investigation into the origins of COVID-19
PTI | May 11, 2021 | Updated 16:40 IST
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses, several of which cause respiratory diseases in humans
China on Monday termed as outright lies the media reports that its military scientists investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and said it is an attempt by the US to smear the country.
Outright lies , says China on reports that it probed weaponising coronaviruses in 2015
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Last Updated: May 11, 2021, 04:03 PM IST
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According to media reports, which referred to the documents obtained by the US officials, scientists of the Chinese People s Liberation Army (PLA) allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the COVID-19 pandemic and may have predicted a World War III fought with biological weapons.
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The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. January 29, 2020
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Most scientists have said there is no evidence that COVID-19 is manmade
Questions, however, remain if it may have escaped from a secretive biolab in Wuhan, from where the pandemic originated
China is known to have been carrying out high-risk gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)
London/Melbourne: Amid the ongoing second surge of COVID-19 pandemic, reports say that the US State Department has obtained documents referring Chinese military scientists allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the coronavirus and may have predicted a World War III fought with biological weapons.
According to The Sun newspaper in the UK, quoting reports first released by The Australian , the bombshell documents obtained by the US State Department reportedly show the Chinese People s Liberation Army (PLA) commanders making the sinister prediction.