Published images show the swelling in the scientist’s hand after bat teeth. Images showing a blatant disregard for security later disappeared from the Chinese science center’s website.
Photos have emerged from the Wuhan laboratory, where the so-called “zero patients” were first infected by the coronavirus infection. Scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology said they were bitten by bats while collecting samples in a cave in 2017. This happened two years before the start of the pandemic. Reported by The Sun.
The footage comes after Ben Hu was named Covid-19 patient zero, along with two of his colleagues, Ping Yu and Yan Zhu.
These three researchers developed COVID-19-like symptoms weeks before China announced the outbreak of the deadly infection. Journalists who published this news claim that Chinese scientists conducted experiments on coronaviruses in 2019 and were infected.
According to journalistic sources, Ben Hu was featured in the video shot in the Wuhan laboratory without protective equipment.
It emerged while other scientists from the same lab were investigating the bat virus in caves in Yunnan. They were not wearing gloves and masks.
Another photo shows a visible swelling of the scientist’s hand after a bat’s teeth pierce rubber gloves like needles. This, however, was reportedly not working on the team of scientists collecting bat samples from Hu’s “patient zero,” an assistant researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Trying to fill in the missing links in the origin story of Covid-19, the DRASTIC international team of scientists and researchers analyzed these images in 2020.
Later, the pictures, which blatantly violated the rules, disappeared from the Chinese Science Center’s website.
One of the lab workers admitted to coming into contact with the blood or urine of bats. In the video, lab staff openly collect samples without masks or protective clothing.
Some were not wearing gloves when they entered caves to collect samples of bat droppings. They posed for the cameras and obviously didn’t think about the possible consequences.
One of the scientists admitted in an interview with Xinhua news agency that he forgot his protective gear and came into contact with bat urine or blood.
And earlier there was an opinion that the virus may have spread due to a laboratory leak, due to the negligence of Chinese scientists. On the eve of June 15, the name of the “zero” patient COVID-19 became clear.
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