Townsville Bulletin

Trump reveals tales of Wuhan body bags in Sky documentar­y

- SOPHIE ELSWORTH

ALLEGATION­S made by former US president Donald Trump in the Sky News documentar­y What Really Happened in Wuhan drew huge interest from viewers who tuned into the one-hour special.

Mr Trump, in an interview with The Australian’s investigat­ive writer and Sky News host Sharri Markson, revealed bodies were dumped outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“Well, I started hearing stories, that you have also, that there were lots of body bags outside of the lab,” Mr Trump told Markson.

“I heard that a long time ago. And if they did, in fact, have body bags, that was one little indication, wasn’t it?”

The claims follow suggestion­s from former secretary of state Mike Pompeo that intelligen­ce about the first incident relating to Covid-19 may have been as early as July or August 2019 – five months before

China admitted to the World Health Organisati­on there was an outbreak.

OZTAM figures show the onehour documentar­y was the highestrat­ing program on subscripti­on TV on Monday night, drawing 160,000 viewers.

Markson, who has written a book with the same title as the documentar­y, said she was overwhelme­d by the interest in the TV special.

“It’s wonderful our documentar­y has resonated with viewers and many people want to know exactly what happened in Wuhan,” she said.

“And 4.7 million people have died and there has been no credible investigat­ion internatio­nally to why this pandemic started and that’s why I think it’s such an important topic to investigat­e.

“I have dedicated virtually this entire year to investigat­ing what happened in Wuhan.”

The documentar­y also drew 100,000 viewers on the Sky News regional free-to-air channel.

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