On November 16, 2015, a RAI regional news episode extensively spoke about what now seems to be Covid-19.
Watch from 4:56
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For the non Italian speaking niggers, this is what the anchor says:
“It's an experiment, sure but it's worrisome. It worries many scientist: a group of chinese researchers inoculated a protein, taken from bats, on the SARS virus - the acute pneumonia virus - obtained from rats.
And they got a super-virus that could hit humans. It stays locked in labs, obviusly. It only has the purpose of research but, is it worth to take the risk and to create such a big treat, just to have a chance of examining it?”