Yeah I read that too, makes me even more suspicious. The Soviets had a 60,000 person staff in their biolab in Almaty, Kazakhstan in the 60's and 70's. One of their specialties was hybridizing the most deadly properties of deadly pathogens.
Of course the Chinese would never do that, since President-for-life Xi would lose the support of his leadership and have to stop down, as mini-Mike Bloomberg would say.
Heh.
When has the Chinese Commiescum party *not* resorted to mass purges when faced with problems?
Notice no one in China is talking about Hong Kong or the Taiwan question, or the impending economic collapse coming at China.