Yup. Would just like to read what was written and not get in second-hand from the SCMP (or any news outlets for that matter).
We’ve seen articles like this from February on.
It’s not unreasonable to suspect this is true.
It would go a long way to explain the hair on fire response of governments to this all of a sudden. From ‘it’s just a bad cold’ to ‘OMG! panic!’.