US officials do not agree on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Many scientists believe that the virus originated in animals.
The dispute over the origin of the corona pandemic has risen to the center of superpower politics.
Director of the FBI, the United States Federal Police Christopher Wray said In an interview with the Fox News channel (you will switch to another service)that the FBI believes the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in a Chinese laboratory.
– The FBI has long estimated that the virus originated in a laboratory, Wray said.
He also accused China of obstructing and complicating investigations into the origin of the corona pandemic.
Wray did not say why the FBI believes China is to blame.
According to him, FBI biological threat experts have found evidence of this, but their work is classified.
Many researchers believe that the coronavirus originated from animals
We know for sure that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 originates from China. But how the virus got to humans is controversial.
The so-called Chinese Lab Theory, i.e. the theory that the virus was created in a Chinese laboratory, is not new.
It has generally been considered a conspiracy theory for which no credible evidence has been found.
The World Health Organization WHO even investigated the matter (you will switch to another service)but concluded that it is “extremely unlikely” that the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory.
The issue came up again in the discussion when several parties, including the WHO itself, criticized this report and demanded a new open investigation.
The majority of researchers believe (you switch to another service)that the coronavirus originated from animals, more precisely from bats in China.
– We have accumulated a lot of evidence that shows that the virus originated in nature and infected a person in the Huanan market in the city of Wuhan, a professor at the University of Glasgow David Robertson told the BBC.
China was shocked by the accusations, the US authorities disagreed with each other
The Chinese Foreign Ministry strongly criticized the FBI’s claims.
– The US intelligence agencies are known for cheating and cheating, and there is not a shred of credibility in these claims from a spokesperson Mao Ning said according to the news agency Reuters (you will switch to another service).
While the FBI spreads claims that the virus originated in a Chinese laboratory, four separate federal studies have come to that conclusion (you go to another service)that the virus originates from animals.
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