CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 9:06 pm Long read and video:
Coronavirus: unlikely clues to Covid-19 virus family found in Cambodia lab freezer, Thai drain pipe

Fresh findings expand the range of known coronaviruses related to the one that causes Covid-19
Researchers look for ‘bat zero’ in the quest to identify the initial animal hosts

CEOCambodiaNews: Is there a missing link for the long read?

Also, the attached vid from the South China Morning Post doesn't seem to relate/refer to the topic of this post ie 'unlikely clues to Covid-19 virus family found in Cambodia lab freezer, Thai drain pipe'

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 9:06 pm Long read and video:
Coronavirus: unlikely clues to Covid-19 virus family found in Cambodia lab freezer, Thai drain pipe

Fresh findings expand the range of known coronaviruses related to the one that causes Covid-19
Researchers look for ‘bat zero’ in the quest to identify the initial animal hosts



Link: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science ... mbodia-lab

I'm always suspicious of articles by the South China Morning Post because they have a history of giving a favourable slant to news about the PRC. And why wouldn't they? The SCMP is a PRC publication owned by the the Alibaba group headed by Jack Ma. Despite the SCMP stating in their Code of Ethics that: 'Journalists should resist influence by political, economic and other interests related to themselves, their families, or their employers. They should protect themselves from undue influence by remaining politically neutral in their work, even if this conflicts with their personal beliefs.', does anybody want to hazard a guess what would happen to this publication or it's owners if they didn't report items about the PRC in a good light? Indeed, now Jack Ma has been laying low since he got his wings clipped after his Ant Group listing was suspended by the CCP.

And so it goes with the above narrative chosen for the headline for this SCMP article.. 'Coronavirus: unlikely clues to Covid-19 virus family found in Cambodia lab freezer, Thai drain pipe'. Unless you read and digest the lengthy article, one could deduce from the headline...'Ah right, coronavirus originated outside China'. Never mind the origin of the current Covid19 outbreak or that these Cambodian samples are 10 yrs old and are only early origins of the Coronavirus family.

To illustrate the misrepresentation between the headline and the content is this excerpt which funnily is found RIGHT AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE:

Holmes, however, said the existing evidence suggested the virus originated within China.
“The first cases of this virus are in China, the closest related bat viruses are also still in China, so the most parsimonious explanation for that is the initial spillover took place in China,” he said. But more work is needed to continue sampling other animals and bats to fill in more data and add to the recent discoveries.

Now lets look at examples of how Western media reported the Results of the WHO mission and compare that with the SCMP headline:

'‘Major stones unturned’: COVID origin search must continue after WHO report, say scientists' https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00375-7

'Explainer: The WHO's theories about the origins of COVID-19 after Wuhan probe' https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN2AA0QK

'WHO Discounts Idea that SARS-CoV-2 Leaked from a Lab' https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opin ... -lab-68435

'WHO investigation into COVID-19's origin says lab incident 'extremely unlikely'' https://www.cnet.com/news/who-investiga ... -unlikely/

'Covid: WHO says 'extremely unlikely' virus leaked from lab in China' https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55996728

'WHO’s Wuhan investigation boosts China’s version of the COVID-19 origin story' https://fortune.com/2021/02/10/who-wuha ... id-origin/

WHO’s coronavirus inquiry compromised by politics say scientists

Two dozen scientists have called for an international forensic investigation to take over the World Health Organisation’s probe into the origins of COVID-19, as the global health body delays an interim report on its findings in Wuhan.

The open letter, which was signed by Australian researchers Colin Butler, Rosemary McFarlane and Nikolai Petrovsky, said the WHO report was compromised by the limitations of operating under the control of Chinese authorities.

The scientists said that Beijing had refused to provide key data samples to the investigation team, while pressure from the Chinese Communist Party may have limited the scientific independence of the Chinese team that was part of the joint mission.

“We have therefore reached the conclusion that the joint team did not have the mandate, the independence, or the necessary accesses to carry out a full and unrestricted investigation into all the relevant SARS-CoV-2 origin hypotheses - whether natural spillover or laboratory/research related incident,” they said.

Full: https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/who-s ... 5789c.html