Who owns the Wuhan virus laboratory in China?
What is its relationship to the emerging corona virus?
What is the relationship of Bill Gates to the virus?
The answers are in this comprehensive report.
An English-language post that was translated into Arabic and circulated on social media claims that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is owned by the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKlein, which owns Pfizer, which developed the Corona vaccine.
After that, the publication will move to charting a relationship between pharmaceutical companies participating in Covid-19 vaccine research, global investment groups, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
The truth is: This talk is a lie and fraud.
We present here details of the lies of this publication, from multiple sources, including the official website of the Wuhan Virus Laboratory, the Australian Associated Press website, and the snopes site to reveal inaccuracies.
Let's refute it as a lie behind a lie:
Myth 1: The Chinese biological laboratory of Wuhan "Wuhan Institute of Virology" is owned by GlaxoSmithKline Corporation
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
According to the institute's website, the date of its establishment dates back to 1956, and it was named the Wuhan Institute of Microbiology, and it was established jointly with the famous virologist Gao Shanjin, the famous academic of microbiology Chen Huague and a group of scientists.
The institute lists historical details on the site, including changes in the body that follows it and the name, and in 1978 it returned to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and became known as the Wuhan Institute of Viruses.
The site adds that in the 1980s and 1990s, the Wuhan Virology Institute made important progress in several fields, such as studying insect and animal viruses, molecular study of viruses, classification of viruses and environmental microbes, and microbial sensors.
The site states that the Wuhan Virology Institute works in the field of national population health, sustainable development of agriculture and national security, with a focus on viral research related to new and sudden emerging infectious diseases, biosecurity, viral infectious pathogens, innovative medicines for agriculture, environmental microbes, environmental protection, and others.
The Wuhan Virology Laboratory is classified as a Biosafety Level 4 BSL4 laboratory, which is the highest level of biosafety precautions, and is suitable for working with agents that can easily transfer into the air inside the laboratory and cause severe to fatal disease. For humans and there are no current vaccines or treatments.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is under the umbrella and oversight of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, according to the Australian Associated Press.
The State Council of China, the country's main governmental administrative body, controls the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
So, the post's claim that the Chinese biological laboratory in Wuhan is owned by GlaxoSmithKline is false.
Lie 2: GlaxoSmithKline owns Pfizer
Not true. Pfizer is roughly 69% owned by institutional shareholders such as investment firms.
GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and the former does not own the latter.
Yet the two drug companies announced a joint venture in August 2019 to create the world's largest company for over-the-counter drugs.
And this company has nothing to do with vaccines.
Also, this joint venture did not include the purchase of the other company's company.
Myth 3: Coronavirus was synthesized in the Wuhan laboratory
The publication is based on the premise that the Corona virus was manufactured in the Wuhan laboratory, and that it leaked from this Chinese laboratory.
But these are nothing more than baseless conspiracy theories.
Last April, the World Health Organization said that all available evidence indicates that the emerging corona virus originated in bats in China late last year, and was not synthesized or created in a laboratory.
"All available evidence indicates that the virus has an animal origin, and that it was not synthesized or created in a laboratory or other place," WHO spokeswoman Fadela Al-Shayeb said in a press statement in Geneva.
"It is likely that the virus is of animal origin," she added.
The spokeswoman went on to say that it is not clear how the virus was transmitted through strains to humans, but "it is certain" that there was an intermediate animal host that transmitted it.
Lie 4: Bill Gates Shares
The post provides inaccurate information about stock stakes in Pfizer and Microsoft, and makes false claims.
It is true that after US President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation became the largest voluntary contributor to the organization, but this does not mean anything, and it does not mean that Gates is involved in the vaccine conspiracy.
The foundation has also invested in Pfizer to expand access to Pfizer's injectable contraceptives, which it says will give women in developing countries an affordable choice of birth control, according to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website.
This also has nothing to do with vaccines, or that Bill Gates created the Corona virus to control humans.