Report Claims COVID-19 Originated In Chinese Government Laboratory

Researchers from the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology say that the Novel Coronavirus may have originated in a Communist People’s Republic governmental laboratory called the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WHCDC) and not the Huanan Seafood Market located just 300 yards away in the city of Wuhan.

In the report titled ‘The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus’ scientists hypothesize that the WHCDC, which kept hundreds of disease-ridden bats in the lab and had been conducting experiments on the animals, had been involved in a mishap in which researchers had possibly been infected by the bats, with one employee described as having “blood of bat…on his skin” after one of the animals attacked him.

A new report from South China University of Technology in Guangzhou says ‘The WHCDC was also adjacent to the Union Hospital where the first group of doctors were infected during this epidemic.’

The document also cited facts suggesting that the type of bat believed to have originally sourced the virus was not native to Wuhan’s Hubei province, and instead lived over 600 miles away. “Genome sequences from patients were 96% or 89% identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus originally found in Rhinolophus affinis (intermediate horseshoe bat),” the species that was used in the WHCDC according to claims made in the paper.

In the report scientists also cited the presence of ticks in the lab as a potential method for the virus to have originally spread from animals to humans and indicated the close proximity between the lab and a hospital, “The WHCDC was also adjacent to the Union Hospital… where the first group of doctors were infected during this epidemic. It is plausible that the virus leaked around and some of them contaminated the initial patients in this epidemic, though solid proofs are needed in future study.”