Wait for it... "There are FIVE variants of coronavirus. Only ONE showed up in China..." and the deadliest variety seems to have landed in... wait for it... Iran. Pepe Escobar: "I had already referenced the crucial Global Times report - but this brings it to a whole new level, incorporating Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese scientific analysis. The killer paragraphs are these: "The geographical location with the greatest diversity of virus strains must be the original source because a single strain cannot emerge from nothing. He demonstrated that only the US has all the five known strains of the virus (while Wuhan and most of China have only one, as do Taiwan and South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam, Singapore, and England, Belgium and Germany), constituting a thesis that the haplotypes in other nations may have originated in the US. Korea and Taiwan have a different haplotype of the virus than China, perhaps more infective but much less deadly, which would account for a death rate only 1/3 that of China. Neither Iran nor Italy were included in the above tests, but both countries have now deciphered the locally prevalent genome and have declared them of different varieties from those in China, which means they did not originate in China but were of necessity introduced from another source. It is worth noting that the variety in Italy has approximately the same fatality rate as that of China, three times as great as other nations, while the haplotype in Iran appears to be the deadliest with a fatality rate of between 10% and 25%. (7) (8) (9)" So to recap: there are FIVE variants of coronavirus. Only ONE showed up in China - as well as in South Korea and Taiwan. Less deadly variant in S. Korea than in China. Variants in Italy and Iran DID NOT originate in China. Deadliest variant is in Iran. If all that is confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt, imagine the repercussions." https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-coronavirus-shocking-update/5705196 Rr