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In January 2020, when news of a mystery new virus in China was only just starting to spread, Miles Yu noticed a telling detail which immediately set off alarm bells.
As a result, Chinese-born Mr Yu, who was then serving as Principal China Adviser to the US State Department, began investigating the new coronavirus around the clock.
At that stage, the Chinese Communist Party was yet to properly acknowledge the illness, so Mr Yu relied on news reports and Chinese social media chatter to gather information – but soon noticed something truly bizarre.
While a Chinese news report had mentioned every institute and hospital involved in the handling of the virus, strangely, there had been no mention of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
That sparked a frenzied investigation which features in a
new book by Sky’s Sharri Markson, What Really Happened in Wuhan,which uncovers a string of explosive details of the extent of Beijing’s Covid cover up.
Mr Yu began meticulously recording details from the Institute’s own website regarding its coronavirus research projects, staff lists and announcements.
Miles Yu’s explosive dossier raised bombshell possibilities. Picture: Hector Retamal /AFP
“Yu realised the gravity of what he was reading – the world’s premiere coronavirus laboratory was in the same city as the outbreak of a novel coronavirus – and he knew instinctively what it could mean,” Markson writes.
“The very city where the outbreak began is home to a Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) virology laboratory genetically manipulating coronaviruses in a dangerous way.”
Over the course of his research, he discovered the Wuhan Institute of Virology was just one of two BSL-4 labs in the whole of China, and an “alarmed” Mr Yu began saving the most important pages from the website for his records.
But when he returned just a few weeks later, the links had mysteriously vanished.
That spurred Mr Yu to compile an official report on his findings, including the discovery of a collection of virus-carrying bats by Chinese scientists in Wuhan.
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Mr Yu also investigated Wuhan Institute of Virology scientist Shi Zhengli, known as “bat woman”, and another coronavirus facility near the wet market first linked to the outbreak.
He became increasingly convinced of a possible link between the Institute and the pandemic, and was tasked with compiling a document with information on whether there were grounds to launch further investigations.
“This was a time when everyone was busy responding to the Covid outbreak,” Mr Yu tells Markson.
“Very few people were looking at the reason for the outbreak, let alone to establish the culpability of CCP on this.
“I knew we had to find out the origin of this, we had to find out who is responsible for the spread of the virus. The overarching point was, we have to find out if China is responsible enough to keep bio-research safe.”
By April 2020, he had completed a “long list of strong circumstantial evidence” against the lab, including its “substandard and negligent biosafety practices” – and in doing so, he became the first individual within the US government to sound the alarm.
Mr Yu’s bombshell dossier, titled
The PRC’s Biosafety Negligence and Circumstantial Evidence Against the Wuhan Institute of Virology, included many hundreds of pages of troubling information, and concludes the virus likely originated in a Wuhan lab, although he admits there is no “smoking gun evidence” to prove it completely.
Sharri Markson's new book, What Really Happened in Wuhan
,has revealed a string of Covid cover ups. Pictures: Supplied
“China is a country obsessed with dangerous viruses,” the report begins.
“State-run media outlets often tout China’s great discoveries of a phenomenal number of new viruses heretofore unknown to mankind.
“Over the past 12 years, China’s army of virologists have discovered close to 2000 new viruses while over the past 200 years, the rest of the world has only discovered 2284.
“In its rush to greatness and dominance in virus studies, China often neglects biosafety, with catastrophic consequences.”
But perhaps most startling of all was a theory outlined by Mr Yu in the report, which “raised the bombshell possibility that China may have invented a Covid-19 vaccine prior to the outbreak”.
Mr Yu explains that in mid-January 2020, Dr Antony Fauci donated Remdesivir samples to China as the outbreak worsened, in a bid to see if the drug helped save lives.
But just days later – before Beijing even confirmed Covid-19 was transmissible – the Wuhan Institute of Virology compiled a “user patent” application for the American drug, which Markson describes as “intellectual property theft”.
According to Mr Yu, this “may give credence to the following possibility: prior to the surprise outbreak in its close proximity, WIV (the Wuhan Institute of Virology) had possessed the novel coronavirus in its lab and had known of its lethality and pathogenicity for a while. It had been actively researching a vaccine before anyone else could succeed, thus giving China the sole patent right”.
Miles Yu claims the Chinese government displayed “bizarre behaviour”. Picture: Greg Baker/AFP
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Mr Yu argues it indicated China may have wanted to prevent Remdesivir from entering the Chinese market, as filing a patent usually takes months “or even years” to complete.
Other disturbing elements of the dossier include China’s bioweapons research, claims from scientists that Covid-19 was genetically engineered, evidence of Shi Zhengli’s role in genetically manipulating viruses and concerns from a lab insider about the Institute’s biosafety record.
Speaking to Markson, Mr Yu said the report also revealed “really bizarre Chinese government behaviour manifested directly form the very top of the Chinese public health authorities to the Wuhan Institute of Virology leadership team”.
“The entire Chinese government system, including all agencies of public security, public health, state media and science research institutions, all acted as if they were hiding something big and became absolutely kneejerk about any mention of possible lab leaks”.
And yet, for months on end, the possibility of a lab leak was dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory at every turn.
