Much of the international community has no real reason to trust China’s communist regime. For too long, the leadership in Beijing has been attempting to revise history, sway public opinion, and omit any sort o narrative that would paint China in a poor light.
This includes information on the subject of coronavirus and the pandemic that began under their watch in the city of Wuhan.
China has repeatedly suggested that the outbreak was caused by nothing more than a simple transference of the virus from bats to humans at a wet market in the city, with China long downplaying the fact that there stands a virology lab specializing in bat-borne illness just a few miles away.
Now, this connection is getting harder and harder to obscure.
Three researchers at a Chinese lab that has been scrutinized as the possible origin point of the coronavirus pandemic went to the hospital due to an illness in November 2019, according to a new report.
The Wall Street Journal, which cited current and former US officials, reported that the intelligence gathered by “an international partner” expands on a State Department document confirming that workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with symptoms “consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness” in fall 2019.
The officials were split on the strength of the intelligence, with one telling the Journal it needed more corroboration and another saying it was “of exquisite quality” and “very precise.” Both said the intelligence stopped short of confirming the researchers had contracted coronavirus.
This revelation could blow a huge hole in China’s story, and lend some explanation as to why the government there appeared to share wholly falsified information with the world during the first few months of the pandemic.
