07/11/2020 - 15:41
- Clarín.com
- International
Hours before taking a Cathay Pacific flight on April 28 to the United States, respected Dr. Li-Meng Yan , who specialized in virology and immunology at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, had planned her escape and made her bag.
He had his passport and was about to leave all his loved ones behind. If they caught her, she knew she could be imprisoned or, worse, "disappear".
Yan told Fox News in an exclusive interview that he believes the Chinese government knew about the new coronavirus long before it was released . She says that her supervisors, recognized as some of the best experts in the field, also ignored the research she was doing at the start of the pandemic that she believes could have saved scores of lives.
He says they had an obligation to tell the world what was happening and they did not, given the laboratory's status as a benchmark for the World Health Organization specializing in influenza viruses and pandemics.
Li-Meng Yan worked in Hong Kong, but he had to flee.
Yan, now hidden somewhere in the United States , claims that the government in the country where she was born is trying to destroy her reputation and accuses the Chinese government of mounting an attack on her on social media in hopes of keeping her quiet.
Yan believes that his life is in danger. He fears he won't be able to go home, and he lives with the harsh truth that he will probably never see his friends or family there again in China. Still, she says, the risk is worth it. "The reason I came to the United States is because I deliver the truth message from Covid-19," she told Fox News from an undisclosed location.
She added that if she tried to tell her story in China, she would be "disappeared and killed." Yan's story leaves an extraordinary claim about cover-ups at the highest levels of government and apparently exposes President Xi Jinping and his Communist Party's obsessive compulsion to control the coronavirus narrative: what China knew, when it knew, and what information edited. sold to the rest of the world.
The pandemic originated in Wuhan, China. And from there it spread to the world. Photo: AFP.
The virologist's problems began when she warned the government of the lethality and danger of the coronavirus, long before China recognized the problem. "I know how they hid it." There she was silenced and pressured by the regime.
In fact, he says that on December 31 a colleague warned him that the virus was spreading person to person, a date long before China and the WHO assumed this reality. On January 9, 2020, the WHO issued a statement denying this type of transmission.
According to Yan, all the information that pointed out that it was a highly dangerous virus is known not only to the Chinese government, but also to the WHO, long before international alerts were issued.
Li-Meng Yan's allegations led to the removal of her website from the University of Hong Kong, where she worked, and a statement saying she was no longer a member of the center. Despite all this, the scientist assured that she will continue to report on the results of her research, which would prove according to her that China did not tell the whole truth about Covid-19.
