‘Weapon Escaped From Lab'

Intelligence expert says it’s ‘highly probable’ Covid came from virology centre

- Chris Hughes

Sinister links tracing the Covid-19 pandemic back to a secretive Chinese biological lab emerged even before the UK went into lockdown, the Daily Mirror has learned.

Senior military and intelligence expert Col Richard Kemp was told as far back as March of a “high probability” it came from a warfare facility.

He learned about the Wuhan connection from a senior foreign intelligence source, who claimed analysts “strongly suspected” the source of the disease was China’s virology unit.

If the virus was harnessed from animals and then re-engineered, it may have been earmarked as a biological weapon or been part of research in case of a natural outbreak.

Col Kemp, a former UK Government adviser whose responsibilities included bio-terrorism, says his intelligence source told him of growing evidence of a cover-up by China.

His unnamed source even said there was a “very high probability” the virus was released unintentionally from the Wuhan lab, in Hubei Province, and was a “man-made variation.”

The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan told the Daily Mirror exclusively: “I was told then, by a very credible source, that this was ‘highly probable’.