The Truth About the Origin of the Coronavirus Revealed
In June, the Western media was awash with reports about the origin of the new coronavirus. In March of this year, the U.S. Congress, both the House and Senate, passed the Corona 19 Origins Act, which requires the government to release classified information related to new coronaviruses within 90 days. The scheduled end of the 90 days passed, and reports sprang up from all over the place.
The most eye-catching was a June 10 investigative report in the Sunday Times, the weekend edition of the British daily newspaper The Times. The lengthy article, titled “What really went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted,” reported that the Chinese military and the Wuhan Virus Research Institute were working together to develop a new type of coronavirus as a biochemical weapon, and that the Chinese military had been working with the Wuhan virus research institute to develop a new type of coronavirus as a biochemical weapon. The core of the article is that the Chinese military and the Wuhan Virus Research Institute developed a new type of coronavirus as a biochemical weapon, but that it was leaked due to inadequate management.
In the U.S., there has been an ongoing conflict between the theory of laboratory leakage and the theory of spontaneous outbreak. The U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have favored the laboratory leak theory, while the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other intelligence agencies have favored the spontaneous generation theory. After reviewing hundreds of documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request, including classified U.S. intelligence documents, various scientific papers, and e-mails exchanged between the parties involved, the Sunday Times decided in favor of the “laboratory leak” theory.
■U.S. Researchers Supported Virus Manipulation Technology
The Wuhan Institute began research on the novel coronavirus in 2004, just after the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) crisis ended. The person at the center of this research was the institute’s virus expert, Dr. Zhengli Shi.
The SARS virus, like the new corona, is a coronavirus. To secure the virus needed for his research, Dr. Shi searched every nook and cranny of the bat caves in Yunnan Province in southwest China. In 2012, after a long search, he succeeded in finding the SHC014 virus in the mountains near Kunming.
Lacking the technology to cultivate the virus in large quantities, Dr. Shi sought the help of Dr. Ralph Barrick of the University of North Carolina in the United States, a veteran in this field, and received assistance. Dr. Peter Dussac, a British bat expert, founded a non-profit organization called the EcoHealth Alliance, which received millions of dollars ($1 million = about 143 million yen at the current rate; the same below) from the US government. The group received several million dollars ($1 million = about 143 million yen at the current rate) in research funding from the U.S. government, of which $650,000 (about 93 million yen) was distributed to Dr. Ishi. The condition was that he would share the results of his research and report the information to the U.S. government.
In the process, the dangerous technology to manipulate the genes of the virus so that it can infect humans, and then inject the manipulated genes into laboratory mice to increase the virus’ lethality, was transferred to China in its entirety. The technology is said to have been passed directly to China.
The “Mukang Cave Project” is a closely guarded secret.
In 2012, Dr. Shi and his team discovered another coronavirus in a closed copper mine in Mukoujiang, in southern Yunnan Province. It is here that they have succeeded in extracting nine different viruses. The research team disclosed the fact of securing the virus itself, but they hid one important fact that occurred before and after.
They failed to disclose that six male workers who had entered the copper mine to collect bat feces and other materials showed symptoms similar to those of the new coronavirus, including high fever, coughing, and pneumonia.
The U.S. State Department investigation team has been investigating the origin of the new corona based on intercepted communications and hacked documents secured by intelligence authorities, and through papers written by the medical team that treated these men, they have confirmed the fact that the workers died.
One of the viruses found in the mine was very similar in genetic structure to the novel coronavirus that has claimed more than 7 million lives worldwide.
■ Chinese military intervened and developed it as a bio-weapon.
The Sunday Times wrote, “The Wuhan Institute has been conducting secret coronavirus research in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences since at least 2017.
By combining viruses from an abandoned mine in Mukang, the institute has been testing ways to increase the viruses’ transmission and lethality to humans as much as possible, and injecting them into laboratory mice to confirm them. They also worked to develop a vaccine for the newly created virus.
The U.S. State Department investigative team has determined that the Chinese military attempted to develop a biochemical warfare virus based on the U.S. technology secured by Dr. Shi. A researcher at the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences wrote in 2015 that the SARS virus “opened a new era of biochemical warfare in that the virus can be manipulated to make it more infectious to humans.”
The fact that Dr. Zhou Icmeng, a member of the Academy of Sciences, filed a patent application for a viral vaccine in February 2020, immediately after the new corona problem occurred, was possible because the research was done in advance.
■It began with the infection of three researchers.
The new coronavirus was leaked in November 2019. Three researchers in their 30s and 40s were infected and treated in the hospital, and a family member of one of the researchers was infected and died. The incident occurred while conducting hazardous research in a biosafety level 2 sanitary environment.
Despite these findings, the U.S. government has yet to reach a final conclusion. The New York Times reported that “the CIA still maintains that there is no smoking gun. The Chinese authorities have continued to block outside investigations and have destroyed all potentially incriminating documents, making it difficult to secure evidence. Nevertheless, if the classified materials secured by the U.S. government are released to the public at large, the theory of China’s responsibility for the new corona is expected to gain strength again in the world.
Choi Yoo-Sik, Director, Institute of Northeast Asian Studies
