A Chinese virologist who has been in hiding over fear
for her safety has stepped out into the public eye again to make the explosive
claim that she has scientific evidence to prove that COVID-19 was human-made in
a lab in China.
Dr. Li-Meng Yan, above, a scientist who says
she did some of the earliest research into COVID-19 last year, made the
comments Friday.
When asked where the deadly virus
that has killed more than 900,000 around the globe comes from, Yan — speaking
via video chat from a secret location — replied, “It comes from the lab — the
lab in Wuhan and the lab is controlled by China’s Communist government.”
She insisted that widespread reports
that the virus originated last year from a wet market in Wuhan are “a smoke
screen.”
“The first thing is the [meat] market
in Wuhan … is a smoke screen and this virus is not from nature,” Yan claimed,
explaining that she got “her intelligence from the CDC in China, from the local
doctors.”
The virologist has previously accused Beijing of
lying about when it learned of the killer bug and engaging in
an extensive cover-up of her work.
She had said her former supervisors
at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, a reference laboratory for the World
Health Organization, silenced her when she sounded the alarm about
human-to-human transmission in December last year.
In April, Yan fled Hong
Kong and escaped to America to raise awareness about the pandemic.
Now, she said, she is planning to release scientific evidence to
prove that the virus was made inside a lab in Wuhan.
“The genome sequence is like a human
fingerprint,” she said. “So based on this, you can identify these
things. I use the evidence … to tell people why this has come from the lab in
China, why they are the only ones who made it.”
Yan added, “Anyone, even if you have
no biology knowledge, you can read it, and you can check and identify and
verify by yourself.”
“This is the critical thing for us to know the origin of the
virus,” she said. “If not, we cannot overcome it — it will be life-threatening
for everyone.”
She said she is coming out now
because “I know if I don’t tell the truth to the world, I will be regretful.”
Yan said that before she fled
China, her information was wiped from government databases.
“They deleted all my information,” claiming that people have been recruited “to spread
rumors about me, that I’m a liar.”
Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, has previously denied reports that the bug spread from his facility.
“There’s no way this virus came from
us,” Zhiming told state media in April.
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