From the Sun:
Covid-19 was originally thought to have come from a so-called “wet market” in the Chinese city.
But there has been mounting speculation linking the disease to the lab, which is one of two in Wuhan, and a possible leak.
Scientists at WIV experimented on bats as part of a project funded by the US National Institutes of Health, which licences it to receive American money, the Mail on Sunday reports.
Research published in April 2018 probed the cross-species transmission of coronaviruses from bats, to other animals, and then to humans.
The study - titled "'fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin" - was investigating a bat-related coronavirus outbreak on Chinese pig farms.
Bats were captured in a cave and samples were taken from the creatures.
Scientists then grew the virus in a lab before injecting it into three-day-old piglets.
The sick animals were then killed and their intestines were ground up into a slurry and fed to other piglets.
Source:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11392677/wuhan-coronavirus-scientists-bat-virus-injection-pig-cannibal/
Source:
https://nationalfile.com/faucis-niaid-funded-wuhan-lab-scientists-to-research-bat-coronavirus/
