A global sensation is caused by the publication of Sunday Times according to which classified files summarize that scientists did some kind of studies-experiments with deadly pathogens at the Wuhan Institute of Virology shortly before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

More specifically, according to the publication, Wuhan scientists in collaboration with the Chinese military were allegedly making some sort of combination of the world’s potentially deadliest coronaviruses to create a new mutant virus.

Researchers examining top-secret intercepted communications and scientific research believe Chinese scientists were carrying out a secret program of dangerous experiments.

Then there was a leak of the virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the pandemic broke out COVID-19.

The American researchers even say that the military’s participation in the experiments and the cover-up effort were related, among other things, to the fact that the experiments were potentially aimed at the development of biological weapons.

The same article notes that the Wuhan laboratory had originally set out to discover the origin of the deadly SARS virus that first broke out in southern China in 2002. However, the research institute soon began to engage in increasingly dangerous experiments on coronaviruses obtained from caves in southern China.

The Wuhan lab initially published all of its findings and claimed that its research was essential to the development of coronavirus vaccines.

It should be noted that the coronavirus discovered in the Mojiang mine is believed to be the only member of the immediate family of Covid-19 that existed before the pandemic.

Whether the virus arose as a result of a leak from a laboratory or from nature has become one of the most controversial issues to analyze.

Investigators trying to find hard evidence have been hampered by China’s lack of transparency.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology, which had begun investigating the origins of the SARS virus in 2003, attracted funding from the US government through a New York-based charity chaired by a British-born zoologist.

The institute has been involved in increasingly dangerous experiments with coronaviruses it collected from bat caves in southern China.

At first, he made his findings public and argued that the associated risks were justified because the project could help science develop vaccines. That changed in 2016, after researchers discovered a new type of coronavirus in a mine shaft in Mojiang in Yunnan province, where people had died of SARS-like symptoms.

Instead of warning the world, Chinese authorities did not report the deaths. The viruses found there are now recognized as the only members of the immediate family of COVID-19 known to have existed before the pandemic.