Covid very likely came from a Chinese lab leak and there was 'obviously' a cover-up by Beijing, British expert says
Daily MailCovid most likely came from a lab leak in China and its origins were 'obviously' the subject of a cover-up by Beijing, a top British epidemiologist has said. Covid-19 emerged in Wuhan, central China, with differing theories among scientists over whether it could have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or a wet market in the region. Covid-19 emerged in Wuhan, central China, with differing theories among scientists over whether it could have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or a wet market in the region Professor Tim Spector co-created the Zoe symptom tracker app and was given an OBE for supporting the pandemic response with his work He also highlighted claims at US congressional hearings that Chinese and American labs had worked together to study the infectiousness of coronaviruses and how to 'control or speed them up'. It has also emerged that American and Chinese scientists sought to create a Covid-like virus just a year before the pandemic began 'This adds another layer to the accumulating evidence that all points to the same scenario: that infected animals were introduced into the market in mid-to late November 2019, which sparked the pandemic,' said author of the study Kristian Andersen from Scripps Research. This photo taken on April 15, 2020 shows vendors wearing face masks as they offer prawns for sale at the Wuhan Baishazhou Market in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province The proposal was made by the EcoHealth Alliance, a New York nonprofit that channels US government grants abroad to fund these types of experiments.