In interview to Fox News, Dr Li-Meng Yan, who worked at WHO-affiliated laboratory on infectious diseases at Hong Kong School of Public Health, claimed her supervisor told her ‘to keep silent’.
A Hong Kong-based virologist has claimed that China knew about the deadly novel coronavirus well before it claimed it did.
In an interview to US-based Fox News published Friday, Dr Li-Meng Yan, who has specialised in virology and immunology at Hong Kong School of Public Health, claimed Chinese authorities knew about the deadly virus in December last year, but hushed it up.
Dr Yan even claimed that her own institute, which is affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO), had asked her to stay silent about it.
In the interview, Yan said had China been transparent about the full dangers of the virus early on, then it would have helped the international community to understand and cope with the virus in a much better way.
Yan, who fled to the US in April, alleged if she had spoken up about the virus in China, she would have been killed and, hence, fled to the US, “to tell the truth of the origins of Covid-19 to the world”.
Covid-19 has affected over 12.5 million people worldwide and killed 5.6 lakh so far, according to data by Johns Hopkins University.❑
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