Wuhan virus lab 'cover-up': Startling photos of scientists wearing little protection as they handle deadly bat samples vanish from website of Chinese institute at the centre of global suspicion over pandemic

Wuhan virus lab 'cover-up': Startling photos of scientists wearing little protection as they handle deadly bat samples vanish from website of Chinese institute at the centre of global suspicion over pandemic 

The Wuhan's Institute of Virology has removed photographs of scientists working in its laboratories and edited out references to visits by US diplomats 

The edited material includes a page of the institute's website showing pictures of staff entering caves to take swabs from bats carrying coronaviruses 

As a result of one diplomat's visit, cables were sent to the US State Department from the embassy warning about the risks of the bat experiments