Where does the coronavirus really come from? Following new allegations of a laboratory accident in Wuhan, US President Biden authorizes the secret services to thoroughly investigate the source.
U.S. President Joe Biden has instructed new intelligence investigations into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, which for more than a year has put the world in a state of emergency. The intelligence services must intensify their efforts to gather and analyze information on the possibility of a laboratory accident in China and must submit a report within 90 days, Biden said. Basically the question needs to be clarified, whether an accident at the research institute in the Chinese city of Wuhan has caused the pandemic worldwide. Over 3.4 million people, according to official data, have died so far from coronavirus or coronavirus.
Important information in the Wall Street Journal
Recently, information from the “Wall Street Journal” has given new impetus to the assumptions about a possible accident at the Institute of Virology in Wuhan. The newspaper on Sunday (23.05) referring to a report of the US secret services, writes, that in November 2019 three employees of the institute were so seriously ill that they were forced to be admitted to a clinic. China made public the first coronavirus infections in Wuhan in late 2019.
Biden now states that he in March asked the secret services to report on whether the pandemic outbreak was related to the transmission of the virus from an animal to a human, or an accident in the laboratory. This report was presented to him in May. Meanwhile the intelligence services are not entirely of one opinion as to what is the most likely origin.
Biden demands more transparency from China
At the same time, the US President called on the government in Beijing for more transparency: provide access to all relevant data and evidence. “
Soon after the onset of the pandemic it was speculated if the virus may have come out accidentally from the Wuhan Institute, where coronaviruses are studied. The Chinese government has vigorously rejected this.
In March, a team of international experts under the auspices of the WHO described it as “extremely impossible” for the virus to have inadvertently left the laboratory. Therefore this track has not been further explored. It is more “likely to even more likely” that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was transmitted from a bat to another animal.
Doubts soon arose about this report. The head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, demanded that the hypothesis of the accident in Wuhan’s laboratory be further verified. Many countries have expressed concern that experts did not have all the necessary data available to them during their research in Wuhan.