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An intelligence report has recently come to light and its content has been making rounds on Twitter. This is an undisclosed intelligence report that was collected in the final days of the Trump administration. This intelligence report was asked to be done in order to understand the origins of the coronavirus and more importantly, whether it was leaked from a lab in Wuhan. The report highlights that there were 3 researchers in the lab that were diagnosed with symptoms of COVID-19 in the month of August(2019). However, it isn’t known if it was this virus as its symptoms are common with the flu.
The owner of the lab as well as Chinese officials are denying any such claim. The Chinese government accused the American government of distracting everyone from the situation. They hope that the Americans focus on the actual source of the disease rather than blame the lab in Wuhan. The top bat coronavirus research team’s leader at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Shi Zhengli, told the WHO that it could not be any of her fellow researchers. She says that all her colleagues working on this strand of the virus were tested for coronavirus-19 antibodies and none of them tested positive.
It is going to be interesting if the WHO chooses to investigate this. It’ll show the world the true level of secrecy that the Chinese government functions in and whether the virus was just being studied or developed for something worse.