Origin of COVID-19 : Wuhan Institute of Virology Says Coronavirus Was Sent to Labs in 2013 – Report!
Home > News Shots > World newsA report has now claimed that a virus sample that was sent to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, seven years ago in 2013, resembles COVID-19. Sunday Times reported that many of the unanswered questions about the origin of this disease have been answered.
Scientists in 2013, has sent frozen samples of a virus after six men who had been cleaning bat feces contracted severe pneumonia. Three of the six men died because of coronavirus transmission from a bat, reported the Sunday Times. This has been substantiated by a medical supervisor who worked in the emergency department and was treating those three men.
Shi Zhengli, an expert in SARS-like coronaviruses that originate from the bat, reported in February, that the COVID-19 resembled the RaTG13, which was sent to the Virology department in 2013. She has confirmed that it is 96.2% similar to the virus sent in 2013. Hence, it is almost certain that the virus had originated from there.
Shi has been working in Wuhan, under the virology department. She has warned that we have only stepped on to the Tip of the Iceberg with regards to Coronavirus.
Adding to this, President Donald Trump had also previously claimed that he had seen proof of the theory with regards to the origin of the novel coronavirus. Despite this vital information, in May the Director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology claimed that there was no copy of the RaTG13 virus in the lab and that there is no way for anyone to have seen it or leaked it for the President to have seen.
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