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British media: Wuhan lab leak theory is more politics than science

British media: Wuhan lab leak theory is more politics than science

According to the British newspaper, The Guardian, a new report on the origins of COVID-19 was due to appear on the president’s desk this week if security personnel met the deadline.

Biden’s team had 90 days to review the origins of the virus after several US scientists indicated they were no longer sure of the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The paper emphasizes that discovering the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19 is very important for the prevention of new epidemics, and believes that a new report is necessary for this, asking whether it is caused by natural viral transmission from bats or by leakage. From the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China.

However, the guard standing outside That since there is no new information obtained by Biden’s team, it is likely that no response will be received this week.

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Security personnel outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology watch during a visit by the World Health Organization team responsible for investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, February 3, 2021.

In May, 18 leading scientists sent a letter to the journal Science claim That the leakage theories were also plausible, accusing the World Health Organization (WHO) of not considering both scenarios in a balanced way.

The main evidence addressed to support the leak theory is that Chinese scientists failed to find the animal contaminated with bats and that it could have been responsible for its transmission to humans.

China is accused of improving a new virus to make it more transmissible and of infecting local officials with the new virus. The suspicion could have been based on the fact that SARS-CoV-2 is highly transmissible between humans. However, David Robertson of the University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research rejected this hypothesis, claiming that this “is not just a human virus. We found it in pangolins. It passes from humans to minks very easily and has infected deer in the United States. It is not a virus adapted to humans.”

Cambridge University professor James Wood, citing the Guardian, believes there is strong evidence to suggest natural transmission of the virus, but political groups are unhappy with the response and are promoting the idea that COVID-19 was caused by the Chinese laboratory, diverting the virus. Attention from mounting evidence that biodiversity losses, deforestation and wildlife trade are the real threats.

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