Reporter : Zhong Gusheng
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/02/27/a102787174.html
English Translation : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : Zhong Nanshan, leader of the senior expert group of the National Health Commission of the Communist Party of China, and director of the National Medical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases. (Video screenshot)
The China Communist Party (CCP) previously claimed that COVID-19 (covid, in short) virus SARS-CoV-2 (covi, in short) came from Wuhan Huanan Seafood market, but this claim has been overturned by its own researchers. The outside world has turned their attention to the virus laboratory in Wuhan, and the CCP has to tried its best to shift their attention to overseas. Experts from the Health Commission of the CCP yesterday claimed that the virus may come from abroad.
At the official press conference on epidemic prevention in Guangzhou on 27 February 2020, academician Zhong Nanshan, senior expert group leader of the National Health Commission of the CCP and Director of the National Respiratory Diseases Clinical Medical Research Center, said, "On the origin of the epidemic, we first consider China. I didn't consider foreign countries. Now there are some situations abroad. The epidemic first appeared in China, not necessarily in China."
He also mentioned, "How exactly covi came from is still unclear. We don't know if it has already existed before. There should be more than one intermediate host besides pangolin."
Zhong Nanshan claimed that the virus "does not necessarily originate in China", based on a paper by Chinese scholars declaring that "Malaya pangolin may be an intermediate host."
On 18 February 2020, a group of Guangxi scholars and Hong Kong scholars submitted a paper overseas claiming that coronavirus similar to covi was found in frozen tissue samples of Malaya pangolin collected two years ago. The pangolin of Southeast Asia "may be the intermediate host for covi transmitted from bat to human". However, the paper neither demonstrates how the virus was transmitted from bats to pangolins, nor does it provide evidence that the virus transmitted from pangolins to humans.
The paper states that the batch of pangolins used for the study came from anti-smuggling operations by Guangxi Customs. In other words, the samples came from CCP officials.
In fact, as early as 7 February 2020, South China Agricultural University (SCAU) in Guangzhou also announced high-profile that coronaviruses with high similarity to covi were found from a group of pangolins, so pangolins were "potential intermediate hosts."
SCAU experts later revealed that the batch of pangolins they used was provided by “certain specific institutions” and implied that they were “responding to national calls” under “huge pressure” to reveal their high-profile research achievements to the public before the paper was written. Netizens at home and abroad have accused that the "achievements" announced by the experts are full of loopholes, and they are likely to complete the "political tasks" officially delivered.
Ten days later, scholars from Guangxi and Hong Kong took the lead in submitting their dissertations, which are equivalent to keeping the high-profile “research results” announced by SCAU as theirs. The SCAU experts did not seem to dispute this.
The CCP officials are eager to get rid of the public opinion question of the "artificial virus theory", and the lack of intermediate hosts is the main obstacle for CCP experts to continue to promote the "natural virus theory". According to common sense, coronaviruses originating from bats are difficult to directly infect the human body. Generally, it is necessary to complete the genetic mutation of an intermediate host of a larger animal to have the ability to invade the human body.
At present, public opinion circles at home and abroad and even government agencies have expressed doubts about the source of the virus in Wuhan. The CCP is "leading the public opinion" and trying to "shift attention" from two directions. One is to continue to publicize "the natural mutation of the virus", and the other is to use the Internet to make rumours and accuse the United States of "delivering biological weapons to China."
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/02/27/a102787174.html
English Translation : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : Zhong Nanshan, leader of the senior expert group of the National Health Commission of the Communist Party of China, and director of the National Medical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases. (Video screenshot)
The China Communist Party (CCP) previously claimed that COVID-19 (covid, in short) virus SARS-CoV-2 (covi, in short) came from Wuhan Huanan Seafood market, but this claim has been overturned by its own researchers. The outside world has turned their attention to the virus laboratory in Wuhan, and the CCP has to tried its best to shift their attention to overseas. Experts from the Health Commission of the CCP yesterday claimed that the virus may come from abroad.
At the official press conference on epidemic prevention in Guangzhou on 27 February 2020, academician Zhong Nanshan, senior expert group leader of the National Health Commission of the CCP and Director of the National Respiratory Diseases Clinical Medical Research Center, said, "On the origin of the epidemic, we first consider China. I didn't consider foreign countries. Now there are some situations abroad. The epidemic first appeared in China, not necessarily in China."
He also mentioned, "How exactly covi came from is still unclear. We don't know if it has already existed before. There should be more than one intermediate host besides pangolin."
Zhong Nanshan claimed that the virus "does not necessarily originate in China", based on a paper by Chinese scholars declaring that "Malaya pangolin may be an intermediate host."
On 18 February 2020, a group of Guangxi scholars and Hong Kong scholars submitted a paper overseas claiming that coronavirus similar to covi was found in frozen tissue samples of Malaya pangolin collected two years ago. The pangolin of Southeast Asia "may be the intermediate host for covi transmitted from bat to human". However, the paper neither demonstrates how the virus was transmitted from bats to pangolins, nor does it provide evidence that the virus transmitted from pangolins to humans.
The paper states that the batch of pangolins used for the study came from anti-smuggling operations by Guangxi Customs. In other words, the samples came from CCP officials.
In fact, as early as 7 February 2020, South China Agricultural University (SCAU) in Guangzhou also announced high-profile that coronaviruses with high similarity to covi were found from a group of pangolins, so pangolins were "potential intermediate hosts."
SCAU experts later revealed that the batch of pangolins they used was provided by “certain specific institutions” and implied that they were “responding to national calls” under “huge pressure” to reveal their high-profile research achievements to the public before the paper was written. Netizens at home and abroad have accused that the "achievements" announced by the experts are full of loopholes, and they are likely to complete the "political tasks" officially delivered.
Ten days later, scholars from Guangxi and Hong Kong took the lead in submitting their dissertations, which are equivalent to keeping the high-profile “research results” announced by SCAU as theirs. The SCAU experts did not seem to dispute this.
The CCP officials are eager to get rid of the public opinion question of the "artificial virus theory", and the lack of intermediate hosts is the main obstacle for CCP experts to continue to promote the "natural virus theory". According to common sense, coronaviruses originating from bats are difficult to directly infect the human body. Generally, it is necessary to complete the genetic mutation of an intermediate host of a larger animal to have the ability to invade the human body.
At present, public opinion circles at home and abroad and even government agencies have expressed doubts about the source of the virus in Wuhan. The CCP is "leading the public opinion" and trying to "shift attention" from two directions. One is to continue to publicize "the natural mutation of the virus", and the other is to use the Internet to make rumours and accuse the United States of "delivering biological weapons to China."
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