{"id":34039,"date":"2021-07-14T02:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/14\/covid-origins-australias-role-in-the-feedback-loop-promoting-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory"},"modified":"2021-07-14T02:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:30:50","slug":"covid-origins-australias-role-in-the-feedback-loop-promoting-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34039","title":{"rendered":"Covid origins: Australia\u2019s role in the feedback loop promoting the Wuhan lab leak theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blanket reporting in News Corp papers has been denigrated for relying on dubious sources \u2013 yet the theory itself has taken on new life<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBAT MAN\u201d screeched the headline in Sydney\u2019s Daily Telegraph on 28 April 2020. \u201cChinese scientists linked to virus probe worked in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn exclusive investigation can reveal the Five Eyes intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada, NZ, UK and US, are understood to be looking closely at the work of a senior scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Peng Zhou, as they examine whether Covid-19 originated from a wet market or whether the naturally-\u00adoccurring virus may have been released from the level four laboratory in Wuhan that was studying deadly coronavirus pathogens from bats,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/nsw\/coronavirus-australia-chinese-scientists-linked-to-virus-probe-studied-live-bats-in-australia\/news-story\/702b1f91ee7a2e69cbc2aff821d8f857\">Sharri Markson\u2019s story<\/a> read.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/14\/covid-origins-australias-role-in-the-feedback-loop-promoting-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanket reporting in News Corp papers has been denigrated for relying on dubious sources \u2013 yet the theory itself has taken on new life\u201cBAT MAN\u201d screeched the headline in Sydney\u2019s Daily Telegraph on 28 April 2020. \u201cChinese scientists linked to virus pro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,681,50,1066,914,512,2170,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-media","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-news-corporation","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34040,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34039\/revisions\/34040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}