Scientists in Wuhan were ‘combining world’s most deadly coronaviruses’ before outbreak of Covid-19

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted risky experiments to create deadly mutated coronaviruses by fusing newly discovered strains – just before the Covid-19 outbreak.

US researchers believe Covid-19 was created by scientists at the Wuhan lab through experiments with a similar coronavirus discovered in a mine shaft in southern China.

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fused deadly coronaviruses to create highly contagious mutant strains, the US researchers claim.

The research program was kept secret and covered up because it was funded by the Chinese military for the purpose of developing bioweapons, the researchers say.

The secret initiative in turn led to the creation of Covid-19, which was then leaked through a laboratory accident in the city of Wuhan before spreading around the world, the US researchers claim.

The laboratory in Wuhan initially set out to find the origin of the deadly SARS virus that first broke out in 2002 in southern China. Sunday Times.

However, the research institute soon became embroiled in increasingly risky experiments with coronaviruses, which had been recovered from caves in southern China.

The Wuhan lab initially made all of its findings public, claiming that its research was needed to develop coronavirus vaccines.

However, the institute’s position shifted in 2016 when researchers at the Wuhan Institute discovered a new coronavirus in a mine shaft in Mojiang, Yunnan, near China’s border with Laos.

The coronavirus discovered in the Mojiang mine shaft is believed to be the only member of the immediate family of Covid-19 that existed before the pandemic.

However, Chinese authorities have not reported any fatalities related to the novel coronavirus discovered in the Mojiang mine shaft.

Scientists discovered a novel coronavirus in a mine shaft in Yunnan, southern China, linked to a number of fatalities (File photo: Scientists collect bats from a cave in Guangdong)

The Wuhan Institute of Virology (pictured) launched a secret research initiative fusing coronaviruses in a series of high-risk experiments

Instead, the mineshaft viruses were returned to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where researchers launched a secret research program, researchers say.

US researchers believe this secret research initiative was designed to make the newly discovered virus more contagious by fusing it with other coronaviruses.

They claim that the facts of the research program were kept secret because it was funded by the Chinese military in line with efforts to develop bioweapons.

In the experiments, albino mice with human-like lungs were infected with SARS-like viruses, which caused death rates of 75 percent.

In the risky experiment, mice were infected with three lab-grown viruses made by fusing SARS-like viruses with a virus discovered in 2012 in a cave in Yunnan.

The researchers believe these secret experiments ultimately led to the creation of Covid-19 before it was accidentally leaked from the Wuhan lab.

They believe the virus leaked from the Wuhan lab to the city of nearly nine million people through a lab accident.

The researchers believe a number of researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology contracted Covid in November 2019 — a month before the West became aware of the virus.

Covid-19 originated as a result of the experiments of the Wuhan Institute of Virology before it was leaked by a laboratory accident, the US researchers say (File photo: Students celebrate the start of the new semester in Wuhan in September 2021)

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted a series of experiments in which they infected mice with highly contagious coronaviruses (File photo: Medical personnel transporting a patient in Wuhan in January 2020)

A study by the University of Wuhan shows that the area around the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the initial center of the spread of Covid-19.

However, links to the Wuhan lab were covered up, the researchers say, as they claim the outbreak was blamed on the Huanan wet food market, which is on the other side of the Yangtze River that flows through the city. , a few kilometers away.

The researchers also claim that the laboratory in Wuhan had already started work on a vaccine before the pandemic, in the fall of 2019.

A highly decorated military scientist, Zhou Yusen, later produced a vaccine patent with remarkable speed, in February 2020, just months after the outbreak was revealed.

A report later claimed that Zhou must have started developing his vaccine no later than November 2019 — just as the pandemic started.

The 54-year-old military vaccine specialist is now said to have died, while US investigators were told by witnesses that he had been thrown from the roof of the Wuhan Institute.

Following the leak, Chinese authorities conducted an information check, blocking investigators from investigating the origins of Covid-19, the US investigators said.

Foreign scientists were refused entry to the caves where the coronavirus was initially discovered, and their samples were taken by the police.