Chinese 'gibberish' on Covid-19 genesis ridiculous

A new study titled 'The Early Cryptic Transmission and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in Human Hosts' claims that the novel coronavirus was circulating in the Indian subcontinent months before the Wuhan outbreak.

The study was conducted by researchers at the Institute of Neuroscience under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Shanghai-based Fudan University and the University of Texas at Houston. This, of course, has neither the acceptance of the World Health Organisation nor does it have the nod of any world powers.

It is just laughable that the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece claimed that the finding was about to be published in The Lancet too. For a good measure - in the process to establish that it has no bias at all and its intent is to just pin point with accuracy the origin of the virus - Chinese scientists also claimed that "the studies from Chinese researchers suggest, just as WHO experts have pointed out, that the coronavirus might have originated in multiple places around the world The studies from around the world concerning the virus origin, no matter whether they are from China, India, Europe or other places, still need further investigation and collaborative efforts from the international community.

It is a scientific task that needs to be treated with an open mind". That the Chinese rulers are rattled is clear. Earlier, they sought to project the US as the origin and then turned their attention to the Europe claiming that Italy and Spain could have been and now it is the Indian sub-continent.

It is not a surprise that they turned towards us as it was only expected of them. Like its all-weather friend Pakistan which keeps claiming that India itself engineers terror attacks on its own citizens and armed forces, the Chinese too keep pointing their fingers at India.

Nearly a year after doctors identified the first cases of a mysterious new disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the country appears to be stepping up a campaign to question the origins of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Chinese authorities finding packaged frozen food imports containing virus evidence is just a part of the game. There is little credence to the claims outside China.

Not even all Chinese believe in it as the Wuhan files reveal. research, if any, must and should be conducted only to establish whether it is a part of Chinese biowarfare. Pew Research has established through its survey of 14 nations that "a median of 61% say China has done a bad job dealing with the outbreak.

The US, of course, is even worse in handling the pandemic (it scored 84 per cent in the same research). Director, UCL Genetics Institute and Professor of Computational Systems Biology at University College of London, Professor Francois Balloux described the paper by Chinese researchers as 'gibberish'.

"A piece of gibberish nonsense arguing SARSCoV2 originated in India, submitted to the Lancet. I can only hope that the process of 'peer review' will weed this one out promptly," he tweeted. Well that is what it is. You know what, the paper that attributed the origin to India has been pulled and not anymore available online now!