Five years after the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, the mystery persists about the origins of the Sars-CoV-2 virus. On December 31, 2019, after several reports of pneumonia cases of unknown origin, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) opened an investigation and the first scientists were sent to the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, considered the epicenter of the epidemic. However, several elements surrounding these investigations remain unclear, and the opacity of Xi Jinping’s regime fuels suspicions.
Even today, two theories about the origins of the virus clash: a laboratory leak and a zoonosis – a virus transmitted to humans naturally via animals. But other gray areas remain around the attitude of the Chinese government. Its refusal to share data from the first patients, its way of obstructing international investigations or even the arrest of certain dissenting voices… China is the target of numerous accusations. But are they justified? The chronology of this mechanism of silence is the subject of this new long video format, available on YouTube and all our social networks.