Wuhan team bitten by bats

SCIENTISTS at the Wuhan lab admitted being bitten while collecting samples in a cave which is home to coronavirus-infected bats. One researcher said one animal’s fangs went through his rubber gloves ‘like a needle’.

Staff inside the top-secret facility were also shown handling bats without gloves and working on ‘ live viruses’ without masks in apparent breach of strict World Health Organisation safety rules on PPE, according to footage captured by a Chinese TV crew and broadcast in 2017.

The revelations will raise further questions for the WHO team which is investigating the origins of Covid- 19 following months of wrangling with Beijing over access to the Wuhan site.

EVIDENCE: Researchers in thin coveralls and rubber gloves handle bats while gathering samples in a clip filmed by a Chinese television crew