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Quote:Wuhan virus lab 'cover-up': Startling photos of scientists wearing little protection as they handle deadlyWayBackMachine: (Archived from The Daily Mail)
bat samples vanish from website of Chinese institute at the centre of global suspicion over pandemic.
*The Wuhan's Institute of Virology has removed photographs of scientists working in its laboratories
and edited out references to visits by US diplomats
*The edited material includes a page of the institute's website showing pictures of staff entering caves
to take swabs from bats carrying coronaviruses
*As a result of one diplomat's visit, cables were sent to the US State Department from the embassy
warning about the risks of the bat experiments
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'Pictures which appear to show slack safety standards at the Chinese laboratory at the centre of international suspicion
over Covid-19 have been systematically deleted from its website – as Donald Trump continues to ramp up the pressure
on Beijing over its potential role in the outbreak.
During the past month, Wuhan's Institute of Virology has removed photographs of scientists working in its laboratories
and edited out references to visits by US diplomats who subsequently raised the alarm about the laboratory's work on
bats.
The emerging viruses group handling bats taken from archive photography. Stills from an internet documentary about research
on bats from the researchers in Wuhan.
US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he had seen intelligence that gave him a 'high degree of
confidence' that the global crisis had its origins in the institute – a month after The Mail on Sunday first revealed that
British Cabinet Ministers had received classified briefings raising the possibility of a leak from the institute.
Downing Street did not take issue with President Trump's remarks
'There are clearly questions that need to be answered about the origin and spread of the virus,' a spokesman for Boris
Johnson said.
The edited material includes a page of the institute's website showing pictures of staff entering caves to take swabs from
bats carrying coronaviruses – with the scientists wearing minimal protective equipment. And the institute appears to have
also removed reference to a visit to the institute in March 2018 of Rick Switzer, a science and technology expert from the
US embassy in Beijing.
As a result of Mr Switzer's visit, cables were sent to the US State Department from the embassy warning about the risks
of the bat experiments. One read: 'During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they [the diplomats] noted the
new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high
-containment laboratory.'
Last month, The Mail on Sunday published alarming pictures from inside the institute showing a broken seal on the door
of one of the refrigerators holding 1,500 different strains of virus. President Trump's remarks were misreported by some
media outlets, including the BBC and The Guardian, as placing him at odds with US spy agencies, which said that the
virus was not manmade or genetically engineered.
In fact, that has long been the working assumption within security sources on both sides of the Atlantic.
Trump was referring to claims that the virus could have leaked by accident from the institute...'
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