It is still not certain exactly where the corona virus comes from, which has been determining our lives for 15 months. One possible place where the corona virus could have originated: the virological institute in Wuhan, China. The US government does not consider this to be ruled out either and wants to investigate.
The bats’ droppings were collected
If you look at a recently surfaced video on Chinese state television, it is no wonder that there are discussions about connections between the development of the corona virus and the Wuhan laboratory. Researchers fiddling with bats there.
The scientists touch the animals. The video shows how a researcher gently touches a bat. All of this takes place without gloves.
The recordings are from 2017, as it is called in a “picture” report. The researchers would also collect the droppings of the small animals. This is highly infectious. Anyone who treats animals so carelessly runs the risk of being injured by them. The bats are believed to have actually bitten some of the scientists.
“Like being stabbed with a needle”
One of these researchers reported in the video about the pain after the bat bite, according to the New York Post. Although he was wearing gloves, the animal still bit him: “It’s like being stabbed with a needle.”
The researchers wanted to find out how the Sars epidemic came about in 2002 and 2003. The connection to today’s Covid-19: Even then, the bats had corona viruses in their bodies.
Shi Zhengli, head of the Wuhan Laboratory from 2017, believes that this careless handling of the bats is not as bad as it should be the “New York Post”.
US President Biden wants to know the origin of the corona
On February 2 of this year, Zhengli also said that she was promising “with her life”, “that the virus had nothing to do with the laboratory”, the US paper continued. A month later, however, according to the magazine “Scientific American”, she asked herself whether the virus might not have come from her laboratory.
US President Joe Biden (78) now also wants to know as quickly as possible where the corona virus originated, according to the “Bild” article. This Wednesday he ordered his secret service to present a report within three months. (nl)