Maybe. Maybe not. That article is worthless though.
It's best to wait for proper evidence. Otherwise we are just getting sucked into a 'yellow man bad' agenda.
Well yellow man was bad.
They sat on important evidence for weeks. Their whistle blower doctor was killed/died as he tried to disseminate information to the wider public and world.
The virus ground zero was a wet market, an allegedly banned practice since other outbreaks.
They have a lot to answer for.
We have stop pretending they are anything like the west. They are not despite the western style towers popping up in their cities.
China has been on lockdown. There is also the mystery of 23 million phone subscribers suddenly stopping and China telecom now not releasing that data because of the government crackdown on that data.
At best they have been hugely irresponsible.
When the dust settles on this we have to look seriously how we interact with China. We should not put profit above everything. We should manufacture more in our own countries. Sorry to sound like Trump but on this he has a point.
China is not working in our best interests.