Chinese virologist Dr Li-Meng Yan, who investigated the origin of the COVID-19 virus during the initial outbreak in Wuhan, and startled the world with her claims that the COVID-19 virus was laboratory-made, has now released a second paper. Li-Meng Yan, who claims to be a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, says the virus was built by merging the genetic material of two bat coronaviruses. Yan, who fled to the US in April following her bombshell claims, now says her mother has been arrested in China. Most scientists and researchers have slammed her claims as unsubstantiated and have said it "cannot be given any credibility".