New documents back theory that Covid outbreak started in Wuhan lab

Wuhan scientists were studying viral samples of high-risk bat species living in Laos - the country where the closest relative to Covid-19 has been found, leaked documents show.

In September, researchers discovered a viral strain called Banal-52 in Laos, which shares 96.8 per cent of its genome with Sars-CoV-2 - boosting claims that the pandemic was caused by a natural spillover event, rather than a laboratory leak.

However, it remained unclear how a bat-borne virus from Laos could have ended up sparking an outbreak in Wuhan, more than 1,000 miles away.

Now, leaked emails between EcoHealth Alliance and US government funders show viral samples were being collected from bats in Laos and sent back to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for study.

The emails, uncovered in a Freedom of Information Request by the US-based White Coat Waste Project, suggest that viral DNA from “bats and other high-risk species” were sent to Wuhan between June 2017 to May 2019.

Before Banal-52 was found, the closest relative to Covid-19 was discovered in cave bats in Yunnan, China, where EcoHealth Alliance had also been looking for viruses and sending samples back to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The genetic sequences collected from both Yunnan and Laos were kept in an online database at the Wuhan institute. However, that was removed in September 2019, leaving experts unsure of exactly what strains were studied at the lab.

Viscount Ridley, co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, said the emails added more weight to the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan.

Speaking at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, the peer said: “Banal-52 is not close enough to be the progenitor, it's still not the smoking gun, but it's pretty good. So maybe this virus started in Laos, not China. Interesting possibility.

“But we got a leak of a document showing that the EcoHealth Alliance was sampling bats in Laos.

“They say in the document that because it would be complicated to come back and ask the US Government for permission to give some of the grant to a Laotian lab, they’d like to send all these samples to a lab that can analyse it for them. It was in a place called Wuhan.

“So the outbreak happened in a city with the world’s largest research programme on bat-borne coronaviruses, whose scientists had gone to at least two places where these Sars-CoV-2-like viruses live.”

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The thing is to portray it as a "theory" puts it in the "theory of evolution" category and we teach THAT is schools as if it is fact. There is LOTS of evidentiary facts that circumstancially all point to the Wuhan lab as manufacturing and deliberately releasing the virus.

They don't issue patents on naturally occurring phenomena.

Yes. I believe the wuhan virus has been proven beyond doubt to have been developed by chi-coms at the woohan lab, abetted by Fauci and US money specifically as a bio-weapon for use against the US.

This was an act of war by communist chinese against the West and the rest of the world. It absolutely would have enraged any earlier generation of Americans.

Chinese communists are nothing but a a gang of thugs masquerading as pseudo-intellectuals, pretty much what rotten democrats aspire to be here.

They are the largest organized criminal gang on the planet and they must be destroyed, then eradicated by law so there can never be another Mao. There is no reason for communism. It has become an absurd anachronism and a cover for two-bit criminals in powerful gangs.

And it doesn't work. Ever.

With this, the pups, the aids kids why isnt this guy waitng his turn for old sparky.

Of course the documents would come out NOW. Hindsight is always 20/20.

It's sort of like Democrats infringing on Constitutional rights until/unless someone brings a lawsuit up. THEN the Democrats will suddenly decide that they didn't want to do that anyway. If no one has the financial means to bring up a suit then, Democrats will forge ahead with ignoring Constitutional rights.

Oh there will be "documents" and "hints" but it will never be substantiated. Certain people will say it, certain governments will declare it but, it will never be widely substantiated, it would be too hard on the DNC.

It's sort of like the whole alien narrative...