COVID-19 Originated From a Chinese Laboratory, Investigative Reporter Says

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Award-winning Australian investigative reporter Sharri Markson says there are convincing pieces of evidence to show that the virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a Chinese lab with ties to the communist regimeโ€™s military.

Marksonโ€™s findings are published in her new book, โ€œWhat Really Happened in Wuhan,โ€ and evidence suggests that Beijing knew about the virus months before the onset of the pandemic.

โ€œI think the evidence quite clearly points to a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, either in mid-September or at least thatโ€™s when the Wuhan Institute of Virology became aware of it โ€ฆ and then after that, there was a deliberate decision by Chinese authorities to cover this up,โ€ she said in a recent interview with EpochTVโ€™s โ€œAmerican Thought Leaders.โ€

The Chinese regime has vehemently denied that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), despite evidence pointing to it. The institute has been doing research on bat coronaviruses for more than a decade, and itโ€™s located a short drive from a local market in Wuhan, Hubei province, where the first cluster of infection cases emerged.

More importantly, a fact sheet released by the U.S. State Department in January stated that several researchers at the WIV fell ill with COVID-19-like symptoms in autumn 2019.

Markson said she presented more evidence implicating the WIV in her book, including how a database containing 22,000 viruses at the institute was โ€œtaken offline mysteriouslyโ€ for the first time on Sept. 12, 2019โ€”three months before China warned that the virus was contagious.

On the same day, the WIV issued a tender to upgrade its security, Markson said. During the ensuing weeks, the institute went on a spending spree, paying $500,000 to boost its security, including the purchase of new CCTV systems and the hiring of new guards.

Eventually, the purchases also included a new air ventilation system, a medical air incinerator, and a coronavirus testing PCR (polymerase chain reaction) machine, according to Markson.

By Frank Fang and Jan Jekielek

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