e seems to have been a media blackout.
The virus was transported to Wuhan and stored in the Virology Institute there.
So…could this be linked to our current Covid-19 pandemic? Was there in fact a leak from the Virology Institute?
Well….opinions differ. No surprise there. Most experts say that the differences between this coronavirus and Covid-19 – some 4%, apparently – are too great for mutation in this relatively short time frame. But with some laboratory assistance, and manipulation from curious scientists at the Wuhan Virology Institute – which is the kind of work they do – well, who knows?
So, the plot thickens. The WIV have not responded to questions from the Sunday Times about why it failed for months to acknowledge that the closest match to the Covid-19 virus was found in a mine where people had died from a coronavirus-like illness years earlier.
Overall, then, the chances of a lab leak as the cause of our current pandemic look just a bit more likely now, but we're still a long way from any definitive answers.
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