There is still debate about the origin of the coronavirus. China has been accused of hiding facts related to the coronavirus. These allegations now seem to be turning into confidence. Recently, a report has revealed that China cleverly got the samples of its initial corona patients tested and data related to genetic sequencing of the virus deleted from the US database.
Deleting data from China’s US database will make it even more difficult to trace the origin of the coronavirus. Professor Jess Bloom, a virologist, and biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, US, thinks that China removed the data from the database to cover up the truth. Researcher Jess Bloom claimed that he has recovered data from 13 patients out of the initial 241 corona cases in Wuhan, which mysteriously disappeared.
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The data related to the testing of samples of corona infected was submitted to the Sequence Read Archive of America in March 2020, but the researchers who submitted it requested to remove the data three months later in June. According to the US National Institutes of Health, the data that was deleted was related to the testing and genome sequencing of corona samples first collected in Wuhan. The institute said that the researchers who submitted the data have full rights to it and they can get it removed whenever they want, we cannot make any guesses on their intention to do so.
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While deleting the data, the Chinese researchers said that the sequence information has been updated and is being deposited on another database. The researchers said that the data should be removed from the US database to avoid further problems.
American Professor Bloom, who informed about the deletion of the data and was successful in obtaining some data, said, “I have already suggested that the coronavirus was spreading in China long before the official announcement of China, but China kept hiding most of the information.’
This move of China has strengthened the fears of coronavirus originating from the laboratory. Dominic Cummings, a former adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said that Prof. Information from Jess Bloom points to the spread of the coronavirus from the lab. Earlier this year, an expert team of the World Health Organization had visited China for investigation earlier this year, but China did not give any information to this team.
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World leaders and scientists are deeply disappointed by China’s negative attitude towards the investigation of the origin of the coronavirus. US President Joe Biden has ordered his intelligence agencies to re-investigate to find the origin of the coronavirus. However, China has said that the laboratory in Wuhan has nothing to do with the spread of the coronavirus.