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A Chinese virologist who claims the [/news/coronavirus/index.html coronavirus] was cooked up in a military lab has revealed that Chinese authorities have arrested her mother.
Li-Meng Yan, who claims to be a former researcher at the [/news/hong-kong/index.html Hong Kong] School of Public Health, says the virus was built by merging the genetic material of two bat coronaviruses.
The news was first announced by Guo Wengui, a fugitive Chinese tycoon who is known for his criticism against the Communist Party, during a radio show this week.
Ms Yan confirmed her mother's reported arrest to US-based website [ ] yesterday but did not provide any further details.
Ms Yan posted the report online alleging that the coronavirus was designed.
But scientists have previously dismissed her claims and said there is 'exactly zero evidence'
Li-Meng Yan, who claims to be a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, says the virus was built by merging the genetic material of two bat coronaviruses
Yan, who fled to the US in April following her bombshell claim, said COVID-19 was 'man-made' in a Wuhan lab and 'not from nature'.
The file photo shows researchers working in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan city, central China's Hubei province on February 23, 2017
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Yan, who fled to the US in April following her bombshell claim, said COVID-19 was 'man-made' and 'not from nature'.
Her Twitter account was taken down in mid-September after she accused [/news/china/index.html China] of intentionally manufacturing and releasing COVID-19.
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, kynghidongduong.vn 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.'
Pictured is the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, which has been the centre of numerous theories that COVID-19 had been spread from this lab in central China
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 has also published a report 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 trương gia giới 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 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.
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