Chinese authorities ‘covered up’ coronavirus cases in Wuhan and did not warn public of risk for a week, claims scientist

Chinese authorities were warned that coronavirus could spread between humans in early January, but did not tell the public for a week, a leading microbiologist has claimed, saying that there has been a ࢀœcover upࢀ. Professor Yuen Kwok-yung says he alerted health officials on January 12 to suspected human to human transmission of Covid-19, but his warnings were not made public until January 19, according to a new BBC Panorama documentary about Chinaࢀ™s sluggish early response to the pandemic. The professor, who helped to identify an outbreak of Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, diagnosed a family of seven…