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November 4, 2024 - Shi Zhengli, a key figure from the Wuhan Institute of Virology suspected of leaking the COVID-19 virus, has moved south to take a position at a laboratory in Guangzhou.
According to a report by Chinese media outlet The Paper on November 3, Shi Zhengli, a long-time researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has now taken up a position at the Guangzhou Laboratory.
On October 31, Wuhan University’s official website announced a news item titled “Yan Huan Team Publishes Paper in Nature Proposing Artificially Designed Virus Receptor for the First Time.” The international scientific journal Nature published a paper on October 30 titled “Design of Customized Coronavirus Receptors.” In the opening paragraph introducing the research team, Shi Zhengli’s name (Zheng Li Shi) was clearly listed. As a co-corresponding author of the paper, Shi Zhengli is now affiliated with both the Guangzhou Laboratory and the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The resume information published on the Guangzhou Laboratory’s website shows that since July 1990, Shi Zhengli has worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has held roles as a research intern, assistant researcher, associate researcher, and was promoted to researcher in October 2000. In May 2024, she transferred to the Guangzhou Laboratory as a researcher.
The Guangzhou Laboratory was officially established in May 2021, with its research and clinical campuses located on Guangzhou International Bio Island and Datan Sha Island, respectively. The lab is directed by Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Previously, Shi Zhengli conducted research on bat coronaviruses and cross-species infections at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as well as studies on enhancing virus functionality. Since the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan at the end of 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology has faced widespread suspicion of a virus leak that caused the global pandemic.
Even after three years of the pandemic, fear lingers, and the virus remains present, while new dangers seem to be lurking.
Since the beginning of this year, COVID-19 cases in China have been rising, and "unknown pneumonia prevention drills" have been held frequently across the country, with the reappearance of "Big Whites" (protective-suit-clad officials) triggering memories of fear among citizens. Some experts believe these drills are actually aimed at COVID-19, with “unknown pneumonia” simply being a different name, though they do not rule out that authorities may be aware of a new virus.
In July last year, Shi Zhengli, then head of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Center at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, suddenly warned in a paper that another pandemic caused by coronaviruses was "very likely" to occur. Former Deputy Director of Taiwan’s Health Department Li Longteng commented to The Epoch Times that Shi Zhengli likely knew something and therefore could predict a recurrence. "If they are creating (coronaviruses), there would be no outbreak unless they release them," he said.
Qin Peng, a political and economic analyst based in the U.S., believes that the global COVID-19 pandemic was originally suspected to be caused by the CCP’s lab transmission and the CCP’s deliberate inaction, with Shi Zhengli’s warning being merely a light caution and not a solution to the problem.
In 2015, Shi Zhengli and her collaborators published a paper in Nature Medicine, describing how they genetically modified a bat coronavirus similar to SARS (SARS-CoV) to make it infectious to humans with enhanced transmissibility.
After the COVID-19 outbreak erupted before the New Year of 2020, international media widely reported that Shi Zhengli fell into anxiety and fear, saying that she spent several sleepless nights, repeatedly revisiting her research and actions, continuously asking herself whether the virus had leaked from her lab.
The "unknown pneumonia" in Wuhan infected and killed many people, but tracing the virus's origin remains difficult due to the CCP's obstruction. The origin theories mainly fall into two camps: natural origins and lab leaks. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is still regarded by some international media and observers as a focal point for origin investigations.
On September 17 last year, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated that the World Health Organization urged the CCP to provide full access so that a second group of experts could be sent to China to resume the investigation into the virus's origin, once again calling on Beijing to provide more information regarding COVID-19 origins. However, the matter was left unresolved.
Editor: Li Muen
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