Coronavirus: “Pandemic started from a laboratory accident”

The coronavirus was transmitted from animals to humans through an “unpleasant accident” in laboratories at the Institute of Virology. Wuhan. This is supported by a US intelligence service, according to extensive article cited by the Financial Times.

In the report, service analysts – not named, for obvious reasons – consider that this institute is probably its most probable source pandemic, taking for granted two critical factors: the very dangerous nature of scientific practice combined with the lack of safeguards on the part of the Institute.

Nevertheless, in the same report, other services “do not share the same opinion, nor do they agree with this claim”. Regardless of the different theories however, “the publication of the report is likely to spark a heated debate over whether China – and even the US – funded research in Wuhan’s lab – bears sole responsibility for the pandemic. “, comment the FT.

“Although there is no evidence that research at the Wuhan Institute involved the Sars-Cov-2 virus [σ.σ: που προκαλεί τη νόσο Covid-19] “These analysts note that researchers may have inadvertently and unknowingly exposed themselves to the virus without recording the sequence through experiments or sampling, possibly resulting in infection either asymptomatically or with mild symptoms.” , is noted in the report.

“Something that would explain why nothing related to Sars-Cov-2 was identified among the coronavirus samples in Wuhan’s laboratory,” the report said.

The report was released just a few days before Anthony Fauci, Head of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, testify in Congress, accused of approving a brave man himself A $ 600,000 grant to conduct a risky coronavirus investigation in Wuhan.

However, the situation regarding the origin of the disease remains unclear: “Without the cooperation of Beijing, US officials rely heavily on indirect evidence to support their hypotheses. “The unnamed agency believes that an accident occurred in Wuhan’s laboratory, due to the type of research carried out by scientists there, but also to the fact that some of the experiments were carried out with relatively low levels of biosecurity”, the report emphasizes. with a clear indication that “there is no answer to the question of the origin of the pandemic”.

Several medical and scientific services still believe that the virus may have been transmitted to humans directly from animals, noting that China did not appear to have any “warning” about the spread of a new disease. “(These analysts) consider it less likely that a laboratory worker was inadvertently infected while collecting an unknown animal sample, from an infection among countless hunters, farmers, traders and others who have frequent and natural contact with animals.” concludes the article meaningfully.

The case of the three researchers in Wuhan

Earlier in the year, the Wall Street Journal had aprevealed that three researchers from Wuhan’s laboratory had been suffering from Covid symptoms since the fall of 2019, ie 4-5 months before the global spread of the pandemic.

Specifically, three of his researchers Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) In China, they sought medical help in a hospital in November 2019 with symptoms similar to those caused by the new coronavirus before Chinese authorities uncovered the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, citing a report. of US Intelligence Services.

A U.S. Security Council spokesman said in May that he would not comment on the WSJ article, but added that the administration of US President Joe Biden “still has serious questions about the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, including its origins.” .

She added that Washington works with WHO and other member states to support pandemic research in which “there will be no interference” and “it will not be politicized”.

The WSJ reported in its article that current and former officials with knowledge of the Wuhan Institute’s researchers “expressed differing views on the validity of the report, with an unnamed person saying further research was needed and confirmation”.

The The United States, Norway, Canada, Britain and other countries expressed concerns about the WHO report in March. on the origin of Covid-19 and called for further research and access to all information on the early stages of the epidemic.