An online portal that is seen as a pro-Donald Trump and anti-China news site says samples from early Wuhan COVID patients had genetically modified henipah, one of two types of viruses sent from a Canadian lab.
While this multiplies the conspiracy theories on the origin of the COVID-19 virus, the paper says the samples were uploaded to the genetic sequence database, GenBank, on the website of the U.S. National Institute of Health.
The paper also says the evidence was first found by Dr Steven Quay, a Seattle-based physician-scientist and former faculty member at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
China denies the virus is man-made or that it comes from a lab in Wuhan. The WHO insists China is not giving full information disclosure on the origin of the virus.
