CHINA admits that coronavirus DIDN'T start in Wuhan's market

The global death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 370,000

The first case of SARS-CoV-2 didn't emerge from a Wuhan wet market, according to experts at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

No one believed the story of China's Wuhan market. This led to calls for an international inquiry into the origin of the coronavirus.

China will cooperate in the investigation of the Coronavirus case. But it should be fair, no one should put pressure, said Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Until now, China has consistently said that the corona spread from the Wuhan market. But now China has taken a big U-turn.

Gao Fu, director of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said the corona did not spread from the Wuhan market. The Global Times has published a report about this.

‘At first, we assumed the seafood market might have the virus, but now the market is more like a victim,’ said Gao Fu, director of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

This was a stunning admission. For the same scientist had unequivocally pointed the finger of blame at Wuhan’s market where wild animals were sold when his country eventually told the world about a deadly new virus in the city.

The market was shut and cleaned up like a crime scene, in the words of another expert, as global attention focused on the ghastly trade in wild animals.

Now Gao has admitted no viruses were detected in animal samples. He said they were found only in environmental samples, including sewage – before adding an intriguing aside that ‘the novel coronavirus had existed long before’.

No-one should doubt the significance of the statement since Gao is not just China’s top epidemiologist but also a member of the country’s top political advisory body.

Curiously, his revelation followed a television interview with Wang Yanyi, director of Wuhan Institute of Virology, in which she insisted that claims about the disease having leaked from her top-security unit were ‘pure fabrication’.

Curiously, his revelation followed a television interview with Wang Yanyi, director of Wuhan Institute of Virology, in which she insisted that claims about the disease having leaked from her top-security unit were ‘pure fabrication’.