Mounting evidence is providing more proof to the theory that the actual ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic is the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

In a report made by Fox News on Thursday, according to their sources, there is “increasing confidence” that the coronavirus outbreak started from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and not at a Wuhan wet market, which is the ground zero parroted by mainstream media for months.

According to the report, the scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology were not studying the virus to use as a bioweapon, but instead, as an attempt to compete with the capabilities of the United States in the field of virology.

The sources indicated that the virus was a naturally occurring strain being studied by scientists as a part of Wuhan’s history of studying viruses and diseases related to bats. And as the bio lab was located in Wuhan, they had access to different remote corners in China, which gives them access to possibly the most exotic and dangerous pathogens.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology is China’s only Bio Safety Level 4 super laboratory that worked, researched, and conducted studies with the world’s most dangerous pathogens, including the SARS Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It was found that the virology lab is safe from natural errors and disasters like floods and earthquakes, but nobody claimed it was free from human error.

Sources believed that the initial transmission of the virus was from bat to human and that the real patient zero worked at the bio lab and not someone from the Wuhan wet market. It could have been a careless employee who carried a strain of the virus in their shoe, their hair, or their hands.

This is not the first time such allegations were thrown into the discussion. Earlier this year, Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton was one of the first US politicians to bring up the possibility that the COVID-19 virus could have started from leakage in a laboratory in Wuhan.

The senator claimed that according to a study conducted by The Lancet, it was found that out of the 40 original cases, 14 of them had no direct contact with the Wuhan wet market, including patient zero.

However, we still don’t know the full and exact information regarding the reports. But what we know is that more data is showing that communist China has been covering up the coronavirus pandemic from the very beginning.

In fact, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper expressed his thoughts during an interview with America’s Newsroom on Wednesday. He said that he still sees China withholding information and that we need to continue pressing them on to share. He also believed that in due course, once we get over this deadly pandemic, we would have the time to look back and reassess what really happened to make sure everyone gets a better understanding of the situation and to prevent it from happening again in the future.

When asked about the reports during a coronavirus press briefing on Wednesday, President Trump responded, “More and more we’re hearing the story…we are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation.”