Communist China detained a reporter from The Wall Street Journal who sneaked to the cave in southern China where the Wuhan Institute of Virology collected coronavirus samples approximately eight years ago after six miners became extremely ill, three of whom later died, after cleaning out the cave's bat feces.
The backstory about the six miners, which was reported nearly a year ago by The Sun, took place in a copper mine in the mountains of southwest China in the Yunnan province.
"Chinese authorities have obstructed independent efforts to investigate the mine, setting up a checkpoint nearby where unidentified men stopped several foreign journalists in recent weeks, on one occasion warning there were wild elephants ahead," The Wall Street Journal reported.
"A Journal reporter reached the mine by mountain bike but was later detained and questioned for about five hours by police, who deleted a cellphone photograph of the mine. Villagers told the reporter that local officials had warned them not to discuss the mine with outsiders."
The BBC tried to get to the mine late last year and were met by police officers who followed them around in unmarked cars.
The Daily Wire reported on Monday that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology - China's only Biosafety level-4 laboratory - were hospitalized in November 2019 with symptoms consistent with COVID-19, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report.
"The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 'with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness,'" The Wall Street Journal reported.
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
China Detains Reporter Who Sneaked To Cave Where Coronavirus Samples Were Collected For Wuhan Lab, Destroys Photo He Took
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