{"id":107223,"date":"2020-05-17T21:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/chinese-official-confirms-that-china-ordered-labs-to-destroy-coronavirus-samples"},"modified":"2020-05-17T21:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:03:06","slug":"chinese-official-confirms-that-china-ordered-labs-to-destroy-coronavirus-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/chinese-official-confirms-that-china-ordered-labs-to-destroy-coronavirus-samples","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Official Confirms That China Ordered Labs To Destroy Coronavirus Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-official-confirms-that-china-ordered-labs-to-destroy-coronavirus-samples.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A senior Chinese government official confirmed Friday that authorities ordered laboratories to destroy samples of coronavirus in early January.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had accused Chinese officials of ordering the samples\u2019 destruction as part of the regime\u2019s cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in its early stages.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-remarks-to-the-press-at-a-press-availability\/\">said<\/a> on April 22 that China \u201ccensored those who tried to warn the world, it ordered a halt to testing of new samples, and it destroyed existing samples.\u201d He offered more specificity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-press-availability-5\/?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on May 6<\/a>, stating that China\u2019s National Health Commission [NHC] ordered virus samples destroyed on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Chinese government official confirmed Friday that authorities ordered laboratories to destroy samples of coronavirus in early January. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had accused Chinese officials of ordering the samples\u2019 destruction as part of the regime\u2019s cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in its early stages. Pompeo said on April 22 that China \u201ccensored [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}