Saturday, April 25, 2020

Russian expert : Wuhan Institute of Viology "has done absolutely crazy things"

Reporter : Xiao Jing
Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Ref : https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/04/25/a102831824.html
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                 / KUCINTA SETIA

Image courtesy : Wuhan Institute of Virology. Hector Retamal / AFP via Getty Images

There are still many opinions on the origin of SARS-CoV-2 (covi, in short). Many countries questioned that covi came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) P4 laboratory. Russian microbiologist Chumakoff said that even though the CCP did not deliberately create a "killing virus", the Wuhan laboratory "did absolutely crazy things" in its research.

According to Petr Chumakov, an expert in microbiology at the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, in the past 10 years, researchers at the Wuhan P4 laboratory have been constantly studying various coronavirus variation. He believes that the original intention of the Chinese experts was to study the pathogenicity of the virus. At the same time, by changing the coronavirus, such as inserting the genome, it has the ability to infect humans.

"In my opinion, they have done absolutely crazy things." Chumakov said, "How exactly this coronavirus is generated, the relevant situation is slowly emerging."

He also stressed that it is necessary to standardize genetic modification work. "In spite of this, I think that the investigation (against the source of covi) will still open. New rules that will regulate the genome of these dangerous viruses will also be worked out," he said.

At present, the origin of the virus is still inconclusive. Many European and American experts questioned that the virus came from WIV.

Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008, questioned on 16 April 2020, and his and his team’s conclusion through a computer program showed that the virus is a SARS coronavirus gene. The splicing synthesis with the HIV gene is "artificial" and is believed to have been accidentally leaked by the Wuhan laboratory.

However, Agence France-Presse quoted a source in the French President's Office on 17 April 2020 that no evidence has been found to prove that the source of the  virus is related to WIV. However, the research institute and the Wuhan Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, which were once the source of the virus outbreak, are only a few kilometres away. The outside world has always questioned whether the Institute has accidentally leaked the virus.

An exclusive report by Fox News on 17 April 2020 also pointed out that the United States has launched a comprehensive large-scale investigation of covi, questioning that the virus may have leaked from WIV.

The report quoted multiple sources as saying that the US has initially ruled out the possibility that the virus is an "artificially manufactured biological weapon". The virus is likely to be naturally produced from the bat and then transmitted to the "patient zero" working in the laboratory., That is, the first infected person, and then the virus spread to the local residents of Wuhan through this "patient zero".

The US stated that after the investigation is completed, President Trump will decide how to hold the Chinese authorities accountable based on the results of the investigation. However, US officials also "100% believe that the CCP will cover up the truth of the epidemic at any cost after the virus leaked."

In addition, Yuan Zhiming, Director of the Wuhan P4 Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also said in an interview that some scientists believe that if the virus is to be artificially synthesized, the scientist’s wisdom is beyond our normal people, and his workload is beyond our current  workload that human society can satisfy. So he "never believed that we humans now have the wisdom to synthesize such a virus."


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