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China bought Corona tests before Corona hit...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-04/china-pcr-purchases-spiked-in-months-before-first-known-covid-cases-firm-says
https://internet2-0.com/whitepaper/procuring-for-a-pandemic/

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. Hubei province is home to Wuhan, the large Chinese
city where the first known cases of the virus emerged. The World
Health Organization reported that its China Country Office was
informed on Dec. 31, 2019, that cases of pneumonia from an unknown
cause had been detected in the city.

Based on the research, Internet 2.0 concluded with "high confidence
that the pandemic began much earlier than China informed the WHO about
Covid-19," according to the report. The cybersecurity firm, which
specializes in digital forensics and intelligence analysis, called for
further investigation. But several medical experts said the Internet
2.0 report wasn't enough information to draw such conclusions. For one
thing, PCR testing, which has been in broad use for several decades,
has been been growing in popularity as it has become a standard method
to test for pathogens, according to one of the experts. In addition,
PCR equipment is widely used in laboratories to test for many other
pathogens beside Covid-19, including in animals, and is commonly found
in modern hospitals and labs. China was also dealing with an outbreak
of African swine fever across the country in 2019.