‘Ms V’ has suggested Covid-19 was brought to China during the Military World Games or started in a US lab (Picture: YouTube/Ms V)

A Chinese state TV presenter has claimed coronavirus came from the United States rather than China in an online opinion show.

An anchor who goes by the name ‘Ms V’ listed several conspiracy theories during an episode of ‘China View’ on CGTN to show ‘it is clear that the virus in China was transmitted from abroad’.

On March 14, the Arabic-speaking host suggested Covid-19 could have escaped from a US lab or have been transported into China during the Military World Games in Wuhan last October – theories that have been denied by researchers.

The video, which has received millions of views online, comes as politicians in Beijing and Washington remain stuck in a war of words about where the illness originated.


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Speaking of the idea that coronavirus escaped from a US lab, Ms V told the camera: ‘The outbreak may be earlier than expected. In September 2019, some Japanese were infected with the new coronavirus after returning from Hawaii, though they had not visited China before.



‘This happened two months before the beginning of the outbreak in China. Shortly after, the CDC shut down the facilities – after claiming that the Fort Detrick Biological Weapons Laboratory had failed to fully prevent the loss of pathogens.

‘Now, all the data related to this lab has disappeared on the internet. The virologist reported he had carefully researched the cases, as well as his Japanese colleague, and they got the same conclusion.

‘It is expected that the new coronavirus has started outbreaks in the United States for a while, and its symptoms were like symptoms of other diseases, so it was easy to hide the truth.’

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The Fort Detrick Biological Weapons Laboratory was partially closed in July by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention amid problems with the disposal of dangerous materials.

It was fully reopened in April, according to The New York Times.

Ms V then cited an alleged news report made by Japanese broadcaster Asahi Corp, claiming the pandemic may have begun spreading after the Wuhan Military World Games, an annual sports event attended by more than 100 countries.

The CGTN presenter said: ‘The Asahi Corp. of Japan published a report in the past days indicating the possibility of new cases of coronavirus in the United States among deaths caused by influenza infection and the US government recently recognised this possibility.

‘This news has caused a widespread debate on social media about the possibility of the virus being transmitted to China from abroad during the period of the Military Olympic Games in Wuhan, which was attended by 109 countries, including the United States.’

Funeral home workers remove the body of a person suspected to have died from the coronavirus outbreak from a residential building in Wuhan (Picture: AP)

A nurse adjusting his goggles in an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 coronavirus patients at a hospital in Wuhan (Picture: AFP)

Asahi Corp have denied the existence of this news report, according to the South China Morning Post.

Zhao Lijian, a Chinese government spokesperson, also tweeted this theory in March, claiming ‘it might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan’.

It was slammed by The Pentagon who named it ‘false and absurd’.

The World Health Organisation says Covid-19 originated in Wuhan, and the source is believed to be a ‘wet market’ which sold both dead and live animals including fish and birds.



Donald Trump recently refused to dismiss US intelligence reports that Covid-19 originated in a virology lab in Wuhan when questioned on Fox News.

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