China is now admitting to destroying early samples of the coronavirus, claiming it was only due to safety and not an attempt to hide the virus from the world:
NY POST – China confirmed Friday it had ordered unauthorized laboratories in the country to destroy coronavirus samples early in the outbreak.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has charged that Beijing refused to provide virus samples taken from patients when the pandemic began in China in late 2019, and that Chinese authorities had destroyed early samples.
Liu Dengfeng, an official with the National Health Commission’s science and education department, told the South China Morning Post the samples were destroyed at unauthorized labs to “prevent the risk to laboratory biological safety and prevent secondary disasters caused by unidentified pathogens.”
He insisted it was done for biosafety reasons and not to hide them from the US and other countries.
When the coronavirus was first reported in the city of Wuhan, “national-level professional institutes” were working to identify the pathogen that was causing it, Liu said.
“Based on comprehensive research and expert opinion, we decided to temporarily manage the pathogen causing the pneumonia as Class II — highly pathogenic — and imposed biosafety requirements on sample collection, transport and experimental activities, as well as destroying the samples,” he said.
There’s no way I’m buying these excuses from China and I’m pretty sure the State department isn’t either.
It’s a well known fact that they covered up the virus in the first place, and destroying these samples was almost surely part of that cover-up. I’m guessing they wanted to leave no trace of evidence that the virus leaked from their Wuhan lab, hoping the world will buy the excuse that it came from the ‘bat soup’ wet market.
Remember, a scientist from the lab originally worried that the virus leaked from the lab. It was only after an ‘investigation’ that she said it was determined not to come from the lab. Yeah, right.