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China Calls for Disclosure of Secret US Biological Activity

March 23, 2020

March 22, 2020.- A Chinese state newspaper urges the US government to clarify the activities of its biological laboratory, which closed shortly before the outbreak of COVID-19.

“There is great uncertainty about the activities of the US Army Microbial Laboratory (Fort Detrick) regarding the spread of the coronavirus, dubbed COVID-19, which has prompted people to seek clarification of their activities,” the official Communist Party of China (CCP) newspaper, People’s Daily, wrote on Saturday.

According to the publication, there is a certain unease about the investigations carried out by the aforementioned laboratory on the new coronavirus and it is believed that the outbreak leakage occurred in this unit.

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Likewise, it points out that on March 10 a petition was launched on the White House website, asking the United States government to reveal the real reason behind the closure of Fort Detrick and to clarify if the laboratory in question was the unit researching the new coronavirus.

Fort Detrick Laboratory, located in Frederick, Maryland, has until recently been the primary focus of the U.S. Army Medical Command’s biological weapons program. Deadly infectious material, such as the Ebola virus and smallpox disease, was being studied at the facility, but it was abruptly closed in August 2019.

In this regard, US media indicated that its closure responded to safety concerns after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) discovered that the organization had not established systems capable of decontaminating wastewater for laboratory workers.

At the time, the New York Times reported that the CDC was unable to provide further details on the suspension of Fort Detrick activities for “national security reasons,” in addition to stating that numerous English web portals, which echoed the news, had been removed .

Zhao Lijian, one of the spokesmen for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, recently stated in his Twitter account that the new coronavirus could have been spread by the US Army in Wuhan City, the epicenter of the outbreak.

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This article is very much important to each and every one of us. Please read and retweet it. COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US. https://t.co/LPanIo40MR

— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) March 13, 2020

Concatenating Zhao’s claims, Geng Shuang, also a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said the international community, including the US, has different views on the source of COVID-19, noting that it is a scientific problem that requires scientific and professional opinions.

On the other hand, at a press conference on Wednesday, China’s chief medical adviser, Zhong Nanshan, rejected the widespread claim that the new coronavirus originated in Wuhan and criticized such allegations as irresponsible.

“The new coronavirus pneumonia pandemic occurred in China, in Wuhan … but it does not mean that it originated in Wuhan,” said Zhong.

Several specialists and observers raise the possibility that the US has created the dreaded COVID-19. In this regard, Philip Giraldi, former official of the Central Intelligence Agency of the US rate (CIA, for its acronym in English) believes that the new coronavirus is the result of a collaboration between the US and Israel to create a biological warfare weapon to harm China and Iran.

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Featured image: Fort Detrick, a facility of the United States Army Medical Command located in Frederick, Maryland.

Source URL: HispanTV (use VPN if you are in the US)

Translated by JRE/EF

TEXT SPANISH

Un periódico estatal chino insta al Gobierno de EE.UU. a aclarar las actividades de su laboratorio biológico, que cerró poco antes del brote del COVID-19.

“Existe una gran incertidumbre acerca de las actividades del Laboratorio Microbiano del Ejército de EE.UU. (Fort Detrick) respecto a la propagación del coronavirus, denominado COVID-19, lo que ha llevado a las personas a pedir una aclaración de sus actividades”, escribió el sábado el periódico oficial del Partido Comunista de China (PCCh), People’s Daily.

Según la publicación, reina cierto desasosiego acerca de las investigaciones realizadas por el citado laboratorio sobre el nuevo coronavirus y se cree que la fuga del brote se produjo en estas dependencias.

De igual modo, señala que el 10 de marzo se lanzó una petición en el sitio web de la Casa Blanca, solicitando al Gobierno norteamericano que revelase el verdadero motivo detrás del cierre de Fort Detrick y que aclarase si el laboratorio en cuestión era la unidad de investigación del nuevo coronavirus.

El laboratorio de Fort Detrick, ubicado en Frederick, en el estado de Maryland, ha sido hasta hace poco el principal centro del programa de armas biológicas del Comando Médico del Ejército de EE.UU. En las instalaciones se estudiaba material infeccioso mortal, como el virus del Ébola y la enfermedad de la viruela, pero fue clausurado abruptamente en agosto de 2019.

Al respecto, medios estadounidenses indicaron que su cierre respondía a cuestiones de seguridad después de que los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) descubrieran que la organización no había establecido sistemas suficientemente capaces de descontaminar las aguas residuales para los trabajadores en los laboratorios.

En su momento, el periódico New York Times apuntó que los CDC no podían proporcionar más detalles sobre la suspensión de las actividades de Fort Detrick por “razones de seguridad nacional”, además de indicar que numerosos portales webs en inglés, que se hacían eco de la noticia, habían sido eliminados.

Zhao Lijian, uno de los portavoces del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de China, aseveró recientemente en su cuenta de la red social Twitter que el nuevo coronavirus podría haber sido propagado por el Ejército de EE.UU. en la ciudad de Wuhan, el epicentro del brote.

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En concatenación con las afirmaciones de Zhao, Geng Shuang, también vocero de la Cancillería china, dijo que la comunidad internacional, incluido EE.UU., tiene diferentes puntos de vista sobre la fuente del COVID-19 y señaló que es un problema científico que requiere opiniones científicas y profesionales.

Por otro lado, en una rueda de prensa celebrada el pasado miércoles, el asesor médico jefe de China, Zhong Nanshan, rechazó la afirmación generalizada de que el nuevo coronavirus se originara en Wuhan y criticó tales alegatos tachándolos de irresponsables.

“La pandemia de la nueva neumonía por el coronavirus tuvo lugar en China, en Wuhan (…) pero no significa que su origen esté en Wuhan”, afirmó Zhong.

Varios especialistas y observadores plantean la posibilidad de que EE.UU. haya creado el temido COVID-19. En este sentido, Philip Giraldi, exfuncionario de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia del país norteamericano (CIA, por sus siglas en inglés) opina que el nuevo coronavirus es resultado de una colaboración entre EE.UU. e Israel para crear un arma de guerra biológica para dañar a China e Irán.

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