A researcher in Wuhan has claimed that China deliberately engineered coronavirus as a “bioweapon”. The explosive claim was made by Chao Shan in an exclusive interview with Jennifer Zeng, a member of the International Press Association, who provides first-hand information and unique insights about China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Mr. Chao said he and his colleagues were tasked with identifying the most effective strain for spreading among various species, including humans. The full interview has been posted by Ms. Jennifer on her blog.
She has also posted a video on her Twitter handle where the human rights activist describes what Mr. Chao, a researcher at Wuhan Institute of Virology, told her. Ms. Jennifer’s blog mentions that the interview was conducted in September 2021. She said that Ms. Chao was given four strains of coronavirus by his superior in Nanjing City in 2019 to test which one of them was the most virulent and transmissible.
Mr. Chao tested the virus on human ACE2 receptors, bats, and monkeys. Mr. Chao also called the coronavirus a “bioweapon”.
He also mentioned in the 26-minute interview that several of his colleagues went missing during the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan. Later, one of them revealed that they were sent to hotels where athletes from various countries were staying to “check the health or hygiene conditions”. Since checking hygiene doesn’t require virologists, Chao Shan suspected that they were sent there to spread the virus.
“Furthermore, in April 2020, Chao Shan said that he was sent to Xinjiang to check the health status of the Uyghurs who were imprisoned in the re-education camps so that they could be released sooner. Once again, since conducting health checks doesn’t require a virologist, he strongly implied that he was sent there to either spread the virus or to observe how the virus worked on humans,” tells Chao Shao in the interview.
The above shocking information was disclosed to the interviewee by Chao Shan himself during the period from March to April 2020. However, as the whistle blower mentioned during the interview, this is just a small piece of the entire puzzle. So far, the true origin of the pandemic that has caused nearly 7 million deaths worldwide, or even more, is still under exploration.
Meanwhile, US intelligence agencies weren’t able to determine whether researchers at the laboratory in Wuhan, China, who fell sick in the fall of 2019 were infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the disease that soon spread around the world, according to a declassified report. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence unveiled details about scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who fell ill in 2019 before the first documented COVID-19 illnesses, as well as coronavirus research conducted at the lab by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
The report comes months after President Biden signed a bill into law requiring the declassification of intelligence related to the pandemic’s potential links to the lab. It will do little to settle the hotly contested debate over how the COVID-19 pandemic started, a topic that’s already the source of partisan clashes and probes.
(With inputs from agencies)
