Investigating the true origins of Covid-19
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
An investigation by The Sunday Times has found evidence that connects a deadly incident in 2012 in southern China with the current global pandemic.
Guests:
Jonathan Calvert, Insight Editor
George Arbuthnott, Insight Deputy Editor
Host:
Manveen Rana
Clips:
BBC, Sky News, CBS, CNN, WHO
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| 0:00.0 | COVID-19, the virus that spread across the world, causing half a million deaths and changing lives, |
| 0:11.0 | first began in a food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan. |
| 0:17.0 | That's what we've been told, but did it? |
| 0:21.0 | China no longer believes that the virus started in the market. |
| 0:25.1 | They've ruled that out. |
| 0:26.9 | They believe that somebody probably introduced it to the market after the virus had been |
| 0:31.6 | spreading for a while in Wuhan. |
| 0:33.0 | Scientists and government agencies are now seriously considering an alternative story. |
| 0:40.0 | The mine shaft virus could actually have morphed. |
| 0:44.0 | People think that it's a bit of a conspiracy theory that it might have leaked from a person in the lab. |
| 0:51.0 | It's very difficult to be able to kind of rule out anything. |
| 0:55.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
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