IN THE NEWS---CHINA BEGAN DEVELOPING TWO COVID VACCINES BEFORE OFFICIAL OUTBREAK

China 'began developing two Covid vaccines' before official outbreak---US senate report concluded that the pandemic most likely came from a lab leak

By Nick Allen IN WASHINGTON18 April 2023 • 3:08pm

Chinese researchers may have begun developing two Covid vaccines in November 2019, before the official start of the outbreak, a US senate report has claimed.

The claims come in a 300-page document, which concluded that the pandemic most likely came from a lab leak and was the result of a "research-related incident" in Wuhan.

It said the theory that Covid-19 jumped from animals to humans in a market no longer deserved the "presumption of accuracy".

The report argued that Chinese researchers appeared to begin development of at least two Covid vaccines at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in November 2019, meaning "SARS-CoV-2 would have been present at the WIV before the known outbreak of the pandemic".  MORE AT China 'began developing two Covid vaccines' before official outbreak (telegraph.co.uk)