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INSIGHT INVESTIGATION

What really went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted

Fresh evidence drawn from confidential files reveals Chinese
scientists spliced together deadly pathogens shortly before the
pandemic, the Sunday Times Insight team report

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Jonathan Calvert
|
George Arbuthnott
Saturday June 10 2023, 4.00pm, The Sunday Times

Scientists in Wuhan working alongside the Chinese military were
combining the world's most deadly coronaviruses to create a new
mutant virus just as the pandemic began.

Investigators who scrutinised top-secret intercepted communications
and scientific research believe Chinese scientists were running a
covert project of dangerous experiments, which caused a leak from the
Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid-19 outbreak.

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The US investigators say one of the reasons there is no published
information on the work is because it was done in collaboration with
researchers from the Chinese military, which was funding it and
which, they say, was pursuing bioweapons.

The Sunday Times has reviewed hundreds of documents, including
previously confidential reports, internal memos, scientific papers
and email correspondence that has been obtained through

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