A year after the British Independent Television (ITV) returned to the scene of the New coronavirus outbreak, Chinese physicians confessed for the first Time to citizen journalists that they had actually known for a long time that the virus could be passed from person to person, but were silenced by the Chinese Communist government.
According to the Central News Agency, the citizen journalists who secretly filmed for the ITV documentary recorded footage showing the Wuhan hospital executives who first handled the 2019 coronavirus disease, saying they had no doubt that the virus was dangerous and had learned of the deaths as early as late December 2019.
A physician who was mosaicked on camera said, “In fact, in late December (2019) or early January (2020), there were relatives of my acquaintance who died from this virus. Many people who lived with him were also infected, including people I knew.” Another physician stated, “All of us agree that there is no doubt that this will be passed from person to person.”
The physicians also revealed that the Chinese Communist authorities began covering up the truth as early as the outbreak began. One said, “We knew the virus could be passed from person to person, but when we attended hospital meetings, we were told not to speak out. The provincial leaders told the hospital not to tell the truth.”
They said that although the (Communist) authorities had known that celebrating the Yellow New Year in January “would speed up the spread of the virus,” “some suggested at least canceling the event in the city, but in the end it went ahead because it symbolizes social harmony and prosperity.”
The documentary revealed that the virus began spreading as early as Jan. 5 to Jan. 17, 2020, but that no new cases were officially reported by Communist authorities during those 12 days.
The early management of the outbreak was a mess and a fundamental failure,” said Luo Yijun, deputy director of the Republic of China’s Disease Control Agency and an epidemiologist, in an interview. I think China (the Chinese Communist Party) could have avoided a pandemic from the beginning if it had handled the outbreak transparently and provided the necessary information to the world quickly.”
The documentary also interviews Chuang Yin-ching, president of the Taiwan Society for Infectious Diseases Medicine, who had visited Wuhan. He said the Chinese Communist Party was initially reluctant to allow him and his team to visit, and it was not until 2 weeks later that he and his colleagues were allowed to go. However, he found that even after arriving on the ground, it was still difficult to find the truth until a certain meeting.
“We asked a lot of questions, and they eventually said reluctantly that they couldn’t rule out a limited human-to-human transmission,” he said. “But how big is the infection? How many patients were there? We don’t even know, only they know the answer.”
On January 20, 2020, British independent television traveled to Wuhan to film the event, where the message was that there was a local outbreak of a bird flu-like virus, although the new virus had also been compared to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), but was thought to be less deadly.
Two days later, Wuhan experienced the world’s first city closure. That closure lasted 76 days.
ITV recently returned to the streets of Wuhan a year after the outbreak and found that Life seemed to have returned to normal, with only masked people and signs revealing the outbreak had occurred.
World health Organization (WHO) experts were finally allowed to travel to Wuhan last week to find answers. As the investigation proceeds, evidence is mounting that China lied, hid cases and failed to respond quickly enough in the early stages of the outbreak.
ITV’s investigation has also suffered setbacks in recent months. Public security has warned people contacted by ITV not to give interviews to the foreign media. Some of these people simply want to share their sad stories, while others are ready to confront the Chinese Communist government.
In December 2020, Zhang Zhan, a Chinese citizen journalist who reported on the outbreak in Wuhan, was sentenced to four years in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.
Some of Zhang Zhan’s supporters ventured into an interview to share their views on the WHO investigation in Wuhan. They likened the investigation to “archaeology,” believing that there is a chance that nothing will be found, or that the answers sought will be buried very deep.
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