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A Chinese virologist who claims the [/news/coronavirus/index.html coronavirus] was cooked up in a military lab has accused Beijing of fabricating the virus genome data to cover up its 'unrestricted bioweapon'.
Although scientists are still unravelling the origin of the pandemic, it is widely suggested that the virus had jumped onto humans from wild animals, phượng hoàng cổ trấn such as bats or pangolins.
On January 11, China publicly released the genetic sequence of COVID-19 and phượng hoàng cổ trấn shared it with the World Health Organization (WHO).
Li-Meng Yan, an alleged former researcher at the [/news/hong-kong/index.html Hong Kong] School of Public Health, said Thursday in a new report that the coronavirus was a 'laboratory product' created by the Communist government with a template virus.
Li-Meng Yan (pictured), an alleged former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, said Thursday in a new report that the coronavirus was a 'laboratory product'
The virologist claimed the 'weaponised pathogen' was intentionally unleashed by the Chinese authorities rather than accidentally.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is pictured on September 8
A Chinese virologist who claims the coronavirus was cooked up in a military lab has accused Beijing of fabricating the virus genome data to cover up its 'unrestricted bioweapon'.
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In an interview with [ ], Yan claimed she was suspended because 'they don't want the people to know this truth'.
'I have evidence to show why they can do it, what they have done, how (they did it),' she told Fox News.
'The scientific world also keeps silent...
works together with the Chinese Communist Party, they don't want people to know his truth. That's why I get suspended, I get suppressed, I am the target that Chinese Communist Party wants disappeared.'
A video of the interview segment posted on the Tucker Carlson Tonight show's page now comes with a warning that reads: 'False Information. This post repeats information about COVID-19 that independent fact-checkers say is false.'
The Twitter account of the Chinese virologist remains down and a message on the page now reads: 'Account suspended.
Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules.
Yan appeared on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight show on Tuesday night. After the segment aired, the Fox News show also accused Facebook of censorship after saying they had been blocked from sharing the interview segment on the social media platform
Yan published her first report last month which she claims backs up her theory that the contagion was built by merging the genetic material of two bat coronaviruses.
She said its spike protein - a structure on the surface of the virus which it uses to bind with cells - was edited to make it easier for the virus to latch on to human cells.
But scientists have slammed her report as 'unsubstantiated' and said it 'cannot be given any credibility'.
Research papers have already determined the origin of the virus as bats, leading to top experts dismissing suggestions the virus was created by humans as having 'zero evidence'.
SARS-CoV-2 — the scientific name of the pathogen — is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans and jumped to people after an earlier version of it mutated.
The previous virus is thought to be one that infected bats and then reached humans via another animal.
Ms Yan's report has not been published in a scientific journal and has not been peer-reviewed, meaning it has not been checked and approved by scientists.
But it has gained widespread public attention, being viewed more than 150,000 times since it was posted yesterday on the website Zenodo, which is operated by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
Donald Trump has previously said he has been told that the virus appeared to have been genetically engineered
Ms Yan writes that her research discounts the theory that coronavirus evolved in the wild and kynghidongduong.vn was then transferred to humans, claiming it 'lacks substantial support'.
'SARS-CoV-2 shows biological characteristics that are inconsistent with a naturally occurring virus,' she wrote.
'The evidence shows that [the virus] should be a laboratory product created by using bat coronaviruses ZC45 and/or ZXC21 as a template and/or backbone.'
She alleges the virus 'should' have been built using stores of these bat viruses, of which she claims samples are kept in Hong Kong and China.
<div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news" data-version="2" id="mol-eb384500-f771-11ea-a266-a5a00dc9eb66" website virologist accuses Beijing of faking virus genome data
