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Before First Known Covid Cases, Firm Says
China’s Foreign Ministry dismisses claims, and some experts say data isn’t convincing

By Jamie Tarabay
October 5, 2021, 3:39 AM GMT+8 Updated on October 5, 2021, 5:32 AM GMT+8

The Chinese province that was the initial epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak made significant purchases of equipment used to test for infectious diseases months before Beijing notified international authorities of the emergence of a new coronavirus, according to research by a cybersecurity company.

The province’s purchase of polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing equipment, which allows scientists to amplify DNA samples to test for infectious disease or other genetic material, shot upward in 2019, with most of the increase coming in the second half of the year, the Australian-U.S. firm Internet 2.0 found.

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