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It is easy to forget that Chinese researchers from Wuhan discovered the origins of the 2002 SARS outbreak. In a remote cave in the southwestern province of Yunnan, virologists identified a colony of horseshoe bats with virus strains that jumped to humans and went on to kill hundreds of people around the world. They made their discovery in 2017 â almost 15 years after the first SARS outbreak.
Around the same time as the researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were searching for the bats, another group of Chinese researchers were working on a far less credible theory â that SARS had been weaponised by foreign countries and introduced to China. The claim was published in a 2015 book,
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
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Shocking footage has emerged showing the absurd lengths authorities are willing to go to enforce Covid rules even after vaccines have been made more widely available, with tens of millions having received the jab.
UK police invaded a church in southwest London during a Good Friday service and shut it down because too many people were in attendance. Local reports identified that clergy and congregants at Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Balham, at what s a predominantly Polish neighborhood church, were threatened with
a fine equivalent to multiple hundreds of dollars, or possible arrest if they didn t leave.
Website of global parliamentary alliance on China suffers cyber attack ANI | Updated: Apr 01, 2021 11:31 IST
Sydney [Australia], April 1 (ANI): The global coalition of MPs of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, (IPAC) who are pushing their governments to take a strong stance against Beijing, has suffered a major cyber attack.
The IPAC s website was down on Monday, after suffering a DDoS attack (distributed denial-of-service), causing the site to slow significantly, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Responding to the attack, IPAC co-ordinator Luke de Pulford said that Beijing might be able to knock them off the internet for a few hours but nothing will stop their members from standing up for the Uyghurs and Hongkongers.