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                                                 THANK YOU CORONAVIRUS





■Author: ONYEBUCHUKWU OLUSCO (Nwa Biafra)
■ Twitter: @umuchiukwu
■ 27, June 2020


Before I proceed with this very article I want to first all apologize to some people that may not be happy because of the heading of this very piece which I titled THANK YOU CORONAVIRUS". I understand that some you might have gone through some difficulties as a result of this very pandemic known as Covid19, but I want you to understand that I did not choose this particular heading for my article in other to muck you or to add more salt to your injury.


I am not ignorant of this small but mighty tiny virus. It's only a fool that will say Covid19 is not real, and I am not ignorant of the great damages it has caused to the whole of humanity. Many lives have been lost as a result of it, approximately 210 countries territories worldwide have been affected by this human-invented disease called Covid19, I know that some people may be wondering and asking why did I say is the human-invented disease? I said so because it was China that spread the virus to the whole world, the virus actually came from Chinese Wuhan laboratory though you can do your research for more clarification if you wish.

As the time of writing this piece according to Covid19 statistics worldwide, it said 487,763 people had been confirmed dead as a result of this very deadly virus. So am actually aware how immensely it has been ravaging the lives of people all over the world but am very sorry to say this, in the zoo called Nigeria they use to say "Another man food is another man poison; what you cherish most, what you love so much might something that despise others, and I must confess that is the case for those that are genuinely fighting for the restoration of BIAFRA, a group like indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB).


With Covid19 ravaging the whole world many people have lost their lives yes that is true there no single doubt about that, it has affected the world economy so badly because of the initial total lockdown of every source of generating income around the world yes that is true nobody is disputing that, but honestly speaking I must confess again that this Covid19 has done more good than harm to us the Biafrans and those that support the precipitous collapse of the Zoological republic called. The Covid19 Is actually a blessing in disguise to us, in essence, that we have been fighting to be free the Zoological republic called Nigeria, and I will tell you the reason why I said so.


First, it all started as a joke on the 27the of February 2020, Nigeria recorded her first fake Covid19 case. It was reported by The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control ( NCDC) they first claimed that one Italian citizen entered into the country with the virus Lagos to be precise, on the 9th of March 2020, again NCDC reported that a Nigerian citizen that came in contact the so-called Italian citizen had contacted the virus too.



At this moment the whole country was in great turmoil, with the fear of Covid19 Nigerians started complaining asking NCDC to release the details of those two persons they claimed had contacted the virus, but do you know the funniest thing? Till date, no single information about those two persons has released, not even their pictures or their names and do you know why is like that? Is because those two persons they claimed contacted the virus don't exist. All is fallacy they forgot we had studied them for many years, so we know how they operate.



If actually, those two persons they claimed were carrying the virus are carrying the virus truly then what is stopping them NCDC from releasing their full details? We all watch the news, and I have seen how Covid19 cases have been handled all over the world and by other civilized countries, they are giving a proper account of everything. Do you know that Nigeria actually intensifies their effort in making sure that every country that looks at them or listen to their news will believe that they too are part of those countries battling with Covid19, they only intensity their effort when they heard that UN had released  $15 Million USD to help vulnerable countries battle the spread of Covid19 so for them to get their own fresh share of the money they have to start fabricating lies everywhere.


Every blessed day NCDC keep on announcing Covid19 new cases while there is none, in Nigeria if you have malaria and typhoid and you went to the hospital to get a medical treatment automatically they will convert it into Covid19, these are supposedly professional doctors but look at the evil they are using their position to commit, they don't even mind buying you off so you will not speak and expose all their evil deeds. Am saying this base on fact because a friend of mine once shared with me his experience with them, he told me how they did everything within their reach to bribe him when he went to the hospital for malaria and typhoid medical treatment. He said they even promise to pay him #15,000 if he complies with them, but he refused. Do you see why I insist there is nothing like Covid19 in the whole of Nigeria? So when we say Nigeria is fantastically corrupt, when we call Nigeria a zoo country, we say Nigeria shouldn't have existed in the first place we are not saying it out of hatred but only speaking the gospel truth".


Now listen, why did I say said Covid19 has done to us the Biafrans better than harm? Is because only during this time of Covid19 that we have been able to showcase to the whole world what Nigeria truly represents, and what do they represent? Lies, falsehood, deception, deceit, propaganda everything bad you can think of that is what Nigeria represents.

Only in this period of Covid19 that the vacuum left in Aso by the Nigerian late President Muhammadu Buhari who died back in 2017, has become very clear to the whole world, or should I say it has become more obvious to the seeing of everybody that Nigeria has no president anymore, it has Government no Government or whatsoever. As am I writing this very piece now Aso Rock is completely empty that is the fact, and they can't hide it, and that fact is catching up with them because very soon Nigeria will collapse. As a result it, this is the greatest fraud ever concealed by any Government in the world, a president of a country died instead of announcing to the people you are hiding it so you can continue to loot the treasury dry.



Remember this was the revelation that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu revealed to some group of IPOB members that came from far and near to visit him at his hometown in Afaraukwu Ibeku back in 2017, after revealing that Buhari is dead and buried in Saudi Arabia, that the person in charge of Aso Rock as of then is a Sudanese Impostor by name Jubril. The then Nigerian de facto President couldn't bear the pain of seeing one of the top-secret he has spent a lot to protect been revealed by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, directly he couldn't do him anything. So he decided to unleash the Nigerian terrorist in Army uniform to his house all in the name of  Operation Python Dance III, all their plan was to make sure he is eliminated because he revealed a simple truth, but Chukwu Okike Abiama said he would not die though is very very sad that his parents died as a result of that invasion. But Abba Kyari the architect of that very invasion is also gone for good as a result of the same Covid19 am writing about. That is actually one of the reasons why I titled this article THANK YOU CORONAVIRUS.



Again it's only in this period of Covid19 that IPOB and Mazi Nnamdi Kanu have been able to make it impossible for them so Nigerian President to address those he claimed he is ruling, I mean the so-called Nigerian President to come out and have a live press conference, have a media chart with the Journalists, a live press conference and a media chart that will give some intelligent Journalists the opportunity to ask him some questions, he can not speak in the open because he is not Buhari. That is why till date he is yet to address the nation openly, and that was why Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said. That thing inside Aso Rock can not speak and will never speak since then has he spoken? The answer is no, and do you know why he will never speak? Because he is not Buhari, he doesn't want any public embarrassment, so the best thing to do is to stay indoors. He can only come out to shake people and wave at people but to speak? That is a no go area.


Remember on the 17th of May 2020, and it was initially announced that Aisha Boyfriend (Buhari) was going to address the country on the issue of Covid19 through his nationwide Broadcast, prior to the prerecorded Broadcast that they want to air on Channels TV and claim it was a live broadcast. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu through his Official Facebook Page issued a direct warning to the Aso Rock telling them not to try such nonsense, he promises them to come live on air to dissect and expose every nonsense they concocted to lie and to deceive the gullible Nigerians, and you know what? The Young boy currently enjoying Aisha Buhari and those advising him they were not stupid, they heeded to the advice, and that is how the whole thing was cancelled.

But you know Femi Adesina nah he must do his work, which is to lie and to deceive his fellow baboons and monkeys in the Zoological republic called Nigeria, that was why you heard him yapping rubbish the next day claiming that there will be no broadcast and none was planned rather. But we all know he was lying, that is a typical Femi Adesina doing what he knows best to do which is to lie and to deceive.

Today as a result of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB unwavering onslaught and bombardment of Aso Rock with raw facts and figures the whole zoological republic called Nigeria is in total disarray, it's now apparent to other civilized nations that Nigeria has no Head of State, no President, no Vice, no Chief of Army Staff. Aso Rock is empty they no longer have President what you have now in the zoo is Presidency. Anybody can go in there and do whatever he/her like or even issue any press statement and say Presidency said this, Presidency said that because there is no Buhari in Aso Rock, Buhari is dead and buried in Saudi Arabia, Osinbanjo who happens to be his Vice has been chased out of Aso Rock by Aisha Buhari cabal because she is now the new de facto President of the zoo since after the death of Abba Kyari, Tukur Yusuf Buratai is nowhere to be found presumed dead, everywhere is in a total shamble.
Coronavirus made our work a little bit easier, before this year ending by the special grace of Chukwu Okike Abiama  BIAFRANS we are going home because Nigeria has Government. What happened to Nigerian Embassy in Ghana on the 21st of June 2020, is a proof that Buhari is no more, Embassy of a country was demolished, and the President of the country it Embassy was demolished never uttered any word what does that tell you? What does that suppose to mean am asking you Nigerians? Are you telling me that Buhari is still alive and all this all thing is happening, and he kept quiet? Please let's discuss something important the zoo gone for good.

Once again I say THANK YOU CORONAVIRUS, we worked very hard for a time like this there is no doubt that, but CORONAVIRUS played a pivotal role in helping us exposing the damnable zoological republic and the evil that it's, am urging all the Biafrans around the globe, all our media warriors and even those that want the precipitous collapse of the darkness called Nigeria. I want everybody to intensify his/her effort because our effort is yielding a good fruit, you may not be seeing it, but I can assure you that you are doing a great job.


Whenever a battle becomes tougher, just know it that victory is around the corner, the time we are in now is very critical and very crucial. Our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu said once Coronavirus is over, that marks the end of the zoo. It's like a prophecy from God which must come into fulfilment, but we must work extremely hard for it to come to pass. We must remain resolute as ever; we must remain fearless before our enemies, we must always be ready to go to work anytime you are called upon because we are all soldiers, every registered IPOB member is a soldier, we must remain consistent, consistency is one of the keys why we are where we are today, and we must remain focused.


"BIAFRA is very close if you can not see it I can picture it very clearly."

Remain Blessed Umunnem.




Edited/Published By Udeagha Obasi
For Umuchiukwu Wtriiters 
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Ejiofor slams FG over handling of coronavirus outbreak in Nigeria, wants members released
       
          ....Says The chicken has finally come home to roost


   Published Sunday, April 19, 2020 @ 12:18PM CET
Barr Ifeanyi Ejiofor




Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lawyer to the Independent People Of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed disappointment at the Federal Government not extending amnesty to imprisoned IPOB members. 
The government a fortnight ago released about 2,600 prison inmates in its bid to reduce the number of people incarcerated at the nation’s correctional facilities.
In this interview, Ejiofor who also bared his mind on the novel Coronavirus pandemic disclosed that the outbreak has only exposed the lack of proper social intervention plan for Nigerians. He also spoke on the recent outburst of the pan-Igbo socio-political group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, on his client, Nnamdi Kanu. Except:
Many countries all over the world are battling the COVID-19, are you happy over the way the Federal Government has tried to manage the pandemic since it came into the country?
Let me start by rephrasing this popular saying which says that  “if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail”. Nigerian economy has been in comatose before this deadly scourge. Nigerians were literally sitting on a keg of gun powder before the explosion of this global pandemic, which sorry state is attributable to manifest gross incompetency on the part of the government in power. Before now, the government has shown little or no concern to the welfare/wellbeing and security of the citizens. A system ostensibly bedeviled by propaganda and hypocrisy cannot achieve much in times of crisis. The present style of government that promotes falsehoods and deceit cannot salvage its citizens in a time of war. The Nigerian government was simply taken unawares, for the simple reason that the health sector has been awfully neglected while the top government functionaries enjoyed medical tourism overseas. The chicken has finally come home to roost! The government is now running helter skelter to revamp the health care system. There is no doubt whatsoever that total lockdown is the surest way to curb, contain the spread of this pandemic to avoid community and human to human transmission, but it can only be effectively and successfully practiced in an organized system where the economy is in good shape. Nigerians are dying of hunger prior to this pandemic, and have adjusted to the honest reality that the government is not interested in salvaging their situation. Locking down the country without making sufficient provisions for palliatives will cause more havoc than the true intended purposes. Corruption is not helping the government either as the COVID-19 has yet provided another avenue for bazaar – windfall that will enrich the schemers. If the present precarious situation is not swiftly managed, it will unarguably give rise to civil unrest and serious resistance that may take the form of mass protests from the hungry majority. It is either something urgent is done to provide palliative for the teeming population of Nigerians who are presently dying of hunger, or the lockdown is lifted immediately.
President Buhari recently granted amnesty to about 2,600 prison inmates across the country in his bid to decongest correctional facilities to curb risks of COVID-19 outbreak. How did you feel especially when no IPOB member was among them?
The reality on the ground is that the prevailing prejudice President Buhari’s administration holds against IPOB members cannot permit fair discretion that will take cognizance of injustices being meted out against IPOB members. I am under no illusion that the amnesty exercise is schemed towards favouring a sectional ethnic group. Despite my call for the amnesty to be extended to members of IPOB still held in various correctional centers across the Southeast and South-south, this administration refused to extend the amnesty to IPOB members. Simply put, the detained members of IPOB were not part of the selected group that was meant to enjoy the amnesty. We are not shocked at all by the inhuman decision not to include them.
A few days ago, Ohaneze Ndigbo called out your client, Nnamdi Kanu, alleging that his continued criticisms against President Buhari are becoming a problem to the political progress in Southeast. How do you react to that?
Ohaneze Ndigbo should appreciate the fact that freedom of expression is a constitutionally guaranteed right, and sacrosanctly protected under various international treaties and conventions, particularly enshrined under the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, duly ratified as part of our laws today. My client is not in any way holding brief for Ohanaeze Ndigbo in his widely followed broadcast. There is no way a genuine government will rely on my client’s gospel of truth as a ground for selective ill-treatment being meted out to a particular ethnic group. The world is fully aware that the Igbo have been relegated to the background by the present government. As third class citizens which the Fulani-led government has classified the Igbo, the Igbo have been totally rejected and sidelined by this administration.
In December last year, you were declared wanted by the police after your house was raided.  How far have you gone with that case? What’s the update on the situation?
I must in the first place give glory and adoration to the most High God at whose mystical prompting, all truth and ill motives behind the bloody onslaught at my ancestral home, and that of the entire Umunakwa community in Oraifite, is gradually being exposed. The interesting intrigue in this matter borders on the outright denial of endorsement or approval of the bloody carnage in my ancestral home by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN). This position of the Federal Government of Nigeria was conscientiously verified on oath in their counter affidavit before the court. In effect, the FGN denied ever deploying troops to my ancestral home nor giving approval for such a heartwrenching incident. The Military High Command, specifically the office of the Chief of Army Staff and Nigerian Army in general, denied ever deploying soldiers to my ancestral home, approving or taking part in the bloody operation that took place in my ancestral home on the 2nd day of December 2019. 
The above position of the Military was duly verified on oath in their counter-affidavit filed in the suit. Without prejudice to the subsisting suit by virtue of which I may not delve into the veracity, merit or otherwise of the positions respectively held by the FGN and the Nigerian Army, it is important to stress that the Anambra State Police Command issued a statement on Monday, the 2nd day of December 2019, and stated among other ludicrous claims that “the Police called for reinforcements from 302 Artillery Army Barracks Onitsha pursuant to which soldiers were deployed to join in the combined bloody operation”. However, all processes are now before the court as issues have been joined by parties. The matter was originally adjourned to the 7th day of April 2020 for hearing, as it was the day the court also fixed for the playing of all video clips attached to my applications. Unfortunately, the court could not sit on that day due to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the indefinite shut down of all courts across Nigeria by the Nigeria Judicial Council ably led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria.
By Henry Okonkwo

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Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin


  Published Sunday, April 12, 2020 @ 21:43 CET
Chinese Virologists, in Wuhan, China

Hong Kong (CNN)
China has imposed restrictions on the publication of academic research on the origins of the novel coronavirus, according to a central government directive and online notices published by two Chinese universities, that have since been removed from the web.
Under the new policy, all academic papers on Covid-19 will be subject to extra vetting before being submitted for publication. Studies on the origin of the virus will receive extra scrutiny and must be approved by central government officials, according to the now-deleted posts.
A medical expert in Hong Kong who collaborated with mainland researchers to publish a clinical analysis of Covid-19 cases in an international medical journal said his work did not undergo such vetting in February.
    The increased scrutiny appears to be the latest effort by the Chinese government to control the narrative on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 100,000 lives and sickened 1.7 million people worldwide since it first broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December.
    Since late January, Chinese researchers have published a series of Covid-19 studies in influential international medical journals. Some findings about early coronavirus cases -- such as when human-to-human transition first appeared -- have raised questions over the official government account of the outbreak and sparked controversy on Chinese social media.
    And now, Chinese authorities appear to be tightening their grip on the publication of Covid-19 research.
    A Chinese researcher who spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation said the move was a worrying development that would likely obstruct important scientific research.
    "I think it is a coordinated effort from (the) Chinese government to control (the) narrative, and paint it as if the outbreak did not originate in China," the researcher told CNN. "And I don't think they will really tolerate any objective study to investigate the origination of this disease."
    CNN has reached out to China's foreign ministry for comment.
    Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects scientific research on the coronavirus during his visit to the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing on March 2.

    Increased scrutiny

    According to the directive issued by the Ministry of Education's science and technology department, "academic papers about tracing the origin of the virus must be strictly and tightly managed."
    The directive lays out layers of approval for these papers, starting with the academic committees at universities. They are then required to be sent to the education ministry's science and technology department, which then forwards the papers to a task-force under the State Council for vetting. Only after the universities hear back from the task-force can the papers be submitted to journals.
    Other papers on Covid-19 will be vetted by universities' academic committees, based on conditions such as the "academic value" of the study, and whether the "timing for publishing" is right.
    The directive is based on instructions issued during a March 25 meeting held by the State Council's task-force on the prevention and control of Covid-19, it said.
    The document was first posted Friday morning on the website of the Fudan University in Shanghai, one of China's leading universities.
    When CNN called a contact number left at the end of the notice, a staff member of the education ministry's science and technology department confirmed they had issued the directive.
    "It is not supposed to be made public -- it is an internal document," said the person, who refused to reveal his name.
    A few hours later, the Fudan University page was taken down.
    The China University of Geoscience in Wuhan also posted a similar notice about the extra vetting on Covid-19 papers on its website. The page has since been deleted, but a cached version of it remains accessible.
    The Chinese researcher who spoke to CNN said the notice was issued a few days ago, adding that only Covid-19 research was subject to the additional checks.
    David Hui Shu-cheong, a respiratory medicine expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said he did not encounter any additional vetting when he and a team of mainland Chinese researchers published a clinical analysis of Covid-19 cases in the New England Journal of Medicine in February.
    "The process was really simple then," he told CNN over the phone.
    Hui said he was still revising the draft of the paper until 3 a.m. on the day it was due for submission, and the paper was sent to the NEJM by midday.
    "There was completely no restriction at all," he said.
    "I don't know if it is because some researchers published something that is considered sensitive domestically in China. (I'm) not sure if it is because of the controversy about the origin of the virus later, and the non-sensitive stuff becomes sensitive too."
    Laboratory technicians test samples of the coronavirus at a lab in Hengyang in China's central Henan province.

    Origin of the virus

    In late December, Wuhan reported the first cases of the coronavirus, linked by authorities to a seafood market in the city. Scientists in China and the West have said the virus is likely to have originated in bats and jumped to humans from an intermediate host -- just like its cousin that caused the SARS epidemic in 2002 and 2003.
    However, parts of Chinese social media and even the country's government appear to have launched a concerted campaign to question the origin of the virus.
    Chinese officials and state media have repeatedly stressed that there has been no conclusion on the exact origin of the virus. Last month, Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, promoted a conspiracy on Twitter that the virus had originated in the US and was brought to China by the US military.
    In China, research papers on the coronavirus are already subjected to layers of vetting after they are submitted to Chinese academic journals, according to an editor at a Chinese medical journal.
    Wang Lan, the editorial director of the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology, said all Covid-19 papers have to go through an approval process for "major topics" after being submitted to her journal.
    "It has always been the case," she told CNN. "They have to be approved by three levels of organizations. It's a long process."
      The Chinese researcher who requested anonymity said under the new restrictions, however, coronavirus research that contradicted the official narrative could be suppressed by Beijing.
      "I think the importance is that the international scientific community must realize that any journal or manuscripts from (a) Chinese research institution has kind of been double-checked by the government," said the researcher. "It is important for them to know there are extra steps between independent scientific research and final publication."
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      Fifty-one recovered coronavirus patients test positive AGAIN in South Korea amid fears virus can hide in human cells and reactivate



            Published Friday, April 10, 2020 @ 15:43 GMT




      Fifty-one patients who recovered from coronavirus in South Korea have tested positive again, raising fears the virus can be reactivated.
      The patients - from the country's worst-hit city, Daegu - were put in quarantine after being diagnosed with the virus, then tested positive again days being released.
      Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said the virus was likely ‘reactivated’, rather than patients becoming re-infected.
      Scientists at the Government-run health body believe the virus may lay dormant at undetectable levels in human cells.
      They say that for unknown reasons the viral particles can then be reactivated - but it is unclear if patients become infectious again.
      Experts say there is no evidence to prove that the virus acts in this way and studies in monkeys have actually shown the opposite.
      And they say in cases where patients produce a positive result twice, it is normally because of a test giving the wrong result, which happens one in five times.
      Fifty-one people who recovered from coronavirus in South Korea have tested positive again – raising fears the virus can be reactivated. Pictured: A church worker directs people to a drive-through worship in Seoul
      Fifty-one people who recovered from coronavirus in South Korea have tested positive again – raising fears the virus can be reactivated. Pictured: A church worker directs people to a drive-through worship in Seoul
      The number of people who've been diagnosed with coronavirus around the globe is more than 1.25million. Nearly 70,000 patients have died
      The number of people who've been diagnosed with coronavirus around the globe is more than 1.25million. Nearly 70,000 patients have died
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      Paul Hunter, an infectious diseases professor at the University of East Anglia, told MailOnline: 'I agree that these will not be reinfections but I do not think these will be reactivations.
      'Personally I think the most likely explanation is that the clearance samples were false negative.' 
      The patients were from Daegu – a southern city in the country's worst-hit province of North Gyeongsang – and had been placed under quarantine after being diagnosed with the virus. However, days after being released from quarantine, they tested positive again, according to a report Monday by the U.K.-based Daily Mail, citing the country’s government-run health body.
      Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said that the virus was likely "reactivated," rather than the patients becoming infected again.
      The KCDC scientists said the virus may lay dormant in human cells without being detected and can be reactivated, though the cause of reactivation remains unknown.
      However, they said that it is not certain if all the patients become contagious again after the viral particles reactivated.
      This kind of reactivation or re-infection by the virus hasn’t been proven yet by scientists, and studies in monkeys have actually shown the opposite to occur, the report added. A study on monkeys published March 16 showed the primates developed immunity to the coronavirus after being infected.
      Experts claim incidents in which patients test positive after recovery are actually a matter of the tests registering the wrong result, which is likely to occur once in five times. Paul Hunter, an infectious disease professor at the University of East Anglia, said most coronavirus tests can provide the wrong result 20%-30% of the time. The tests on the cases in South Korea could have given false negatives before the patients' release from quarantine, only to register positive in a later test, he said.
      "I agree that these will not be reinfections but I do not think these will be reactivations," Hunter told MailOnline. "Personally, I think the most likely explanation is that the clearance samples were false negative."


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      UK ministers ‘no longer discounting’ theory that Covid-19 leaked from Wuhan lab – report

           Published Monday, April 06, 2020 @ 12:45 CET by BIAFRA TODAY
      Virologists working in the lab



      Senior members of the UK government have become less skeptical of the fringe theory that the coronavirus pandemic came from a lab in Wuhan, China, the original epicenter of the outbreak, high-ranked sources told the Daily Mail.

      A member of Cobra, the emergency committee led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, told the paper that while it’s still believed that the virus originated from animals, intelligence reports have not ruled out the possibility that the deadly illness was man-made.

      “There is a credible alternative view [to the zoonotic theory] based on the nature of the virus. Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is that laboratory in Wuhan. It is not discounted,” the unnamed source told the British paper.

      Rumors that the Chinese authorities had something to do with the outbreak have been solely based on the fact that Wuhan is home to the Institute of Virology. 

      The facility, which is believed to have the most advanced labs in China, is located a dozen kilometers from the wildlife market that was pinpointed by Beijing as the source of the pandemic. Experts at the institute were the first to suggest that the disease had been transmitted to humans from bats.

      Suggestions that COVID-19 was man-made were thought to be mere conspiracy theories unsupported by any actual proof, but it has now emerged that this possibility was discussed at the highest level in the UK.

      Some experts have put forward the theory that the virus may have accidentally leaked from the lab. Professor Richard Ebright of Rutgers University’s Waksman Institute of Microbiology told the Mail on Sunday that, while COVID-19 is clearly not a bioweapon, it could have escaped from the facility by accident.

      Ebright claims to know that the Chinese virologists employed insufficient security measures during their studies, creating a situation in which “virus collection, culture, isolation, or animal infection would pose a substantial risk of infection of a lab worker, and from the lab worker then the public.”

      The British suspicions echo those of their allies in the US, where Washington has alluded to China’s involvement in the outbreak on many occasions. President Donald Trump has been criticized for referring to Covid-19 as “the Chinese virus,” while one White House official also reportedly labeled the disease ”Kung Flu."

      Beijing’s diplomats responded by suggesting that the coronavirus was not of Chinese origin and could have been brought to Wuhan by the US military.

      Tehran also chipped in, with Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps chief, Hossein Salami, suggesting that Covid-19 was “possibly” a biological attack by the Americans against China and Iran, which then spread around the globe. 

      However, the international blame game was never backed by any fact, with politicians always leaving space for debate in their assumptions.

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