The Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, which was closed due to the spread of the coronavirus, in January 2020. The Chinese government initially claimed pneumonia was the cause of the spread of the coronavirus, but a recent investigation in the United States Uniti demonstrated that a research institute was indeed aware of the existence of the virus and its genetic information. / Reuters Yonhap News
A US Congressional investigation found that researchers in China had completed the genetic analysis of the virus and had even obtained its DNA base sequence at least two weeks before the Chinese government notified the international community of the existence of the new coronavirus. Western media pointed out that “due to the Chinese government’s unclear and late measures, each country’s response to the coronavirus has been delayed, and the development of virus detection kits and vaccines has also been delayed.”
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the Washington Post reported on the 17th that a US government document with this content was presented to the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is working to trace the origin of the coronavirus. According to this document prepared by the United States Department of Health and Welfare, Dr. Ren Lili, a member of the Institute of Bacteriology of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, uploaded the coronavirus sequence analysis data to Genbank (Genbank, a global genetic research database maintained by the US National Institutes of Health) on December 28, 2019. registered in GenBank). The WSJ said: “This comes about two weeks before January 11, 2020, when Chinese authorities first notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of the existence of the coronavirus.” In December 2019, pneumonia symptoms appeared one after another in Wuhan, China, but Chinese authorities maintained the position that the cause was unknown.
Genbank requested additional information three days after the Chinese researchers recorded the base sequence, but the researchers did not respond, so the verification process went no further. On January 12, 2020, coronavirus genetic data containing almost the same base sequence information as two weeks ago was submitted to Genbank by another Chinese research team. Four days later, the first researcher’s registration data was deleted from Genbank. US media said: “The US government determined that coronavirus sequence information recorded two weeks apart was almost identical” and added: “The Chinese government was late to reveal information on the deadly new virus” . Jesse Bloom, a professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, told the WSJ: “If we had access to the information earlier, we could have developed a vaccine more quickly.”
2024-01-19 08:07:50
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