Posted on 05/24/2020 8:01:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Beijing (AFP) – The Chinese virology institute at the center of US allegations it may have been the source of the COVID-19 pandemic has three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, but none match the new global contagion, its director has said.
Scientists think COVID-19 — which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and has killed more than 340,000 people worldwide — originated in bats and could have been transmitted to people via another mammal.
But the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology told state broadcaster CGTN that claims made by US President Donald Trump and others the virus could have leaked from the facility were “pure fabrication”.
In the interview filmed on May 13 but broadcast Saturday night, Wang Yanyi said the center has “isolated and obtained some coronaviruses from bats”.
“Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 only reaches 79.8 percent,” she said, referring to the coronavirus strain that causes COVID-19.
One of their research teams, led by Professor Shi Zhengli, has been researching bat coronaviruses since 2004 and focused on the “source tracing of SARS”, the strain behind another virus outbreak nearly two decades ago.
“We know that the whole genome of SARS-CoV-2 is only 80 percent similar to that of SARS. It’s an obvious difference,” she said.
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> none match the new global contagion, its director has said <
Well, that settles it. Because no way would that director lie to cover things up. The ChiComs value the truth above all! So let’s look elsewhere for the cause of the virus. Maybe it had something to do with a meteor.
Here’s a 2017 article that says they had a lot more than “three strains”!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bat-cave-solves-mystery-of-deadly-sars-virus/
And a week ago, the Chinese claimed that they had destroyed their original strains of Coronavirus. There is not one word of anything that you can believe from the Chinese.
If you liked COVID-19, you’ll LOVE COVID-20. All of the symptoms but TWICE the death rate.
Stinking, murderous Red Chicomm filth LIE.
v2.0 is loose already over there.
https://fortune.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-mutating-second-strain-covid-19-wuhan-china/
“What bat virus?”
““We know that the whole genome of SARS-CoV-2 is only 80 percent similar to that of SARS. It’s an obvious difference,” she said.”
That could be a correct statement. But if they re-engineered the SARS-2 and took out the rna that wasn’t working for the need and added other rna pieces from other virus and added the protein spikes, “viola!” you have c-19. So she was not lying, from a particular point of view.
And the question remains, if the c-19 virus that has spread all over the world so fast came from bats, why didn’t it spread to bats all over the world as I’m seeing nothing about that? It can go to humans, why not other bats first even faster as it morphs?
rwood
What a great way to cover up a another biowarfare attack.
Just call it the “second wave.” Nobody to blame for that, just bad luck.
Hi.
I have an idea. Nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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bleach bit...
So where did it come from, a fish market? Yep, OK.
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