After Trump's attacks, denying the novel coronavirus is natural and inventing culprits for the pandemic, several conspiracy theories gained more prominence in the press.
Therefore, the director of the laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, who has been accused by the American press of being the source of the new coronavirus, vehemently denied the accusations this past Sunday, April 19.
As a result, China has come under increasing pressure over its handling of the pandemic. The US government is trying to determine whether the virus originated in a virology institute with a biosafety laboratory.
Coronavirus – accusations against China
The official explanation from Chinese scientists is that the virus was likely transmitted from an animal to humans at a market selling wild animals.
But some conspiracy theories claim otherwise.
The germ is believed to have spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, specifically from the P4 laboratory, which is equipped to administer dangerous viruses with a very high potential for person-to-person transmission.
The director of the Wuhan laboratory said: “It is impossible for this virus to come from us,” Yuan Zhiming said in an interview with state media.
Contrary to what has been reported in the international press, he emphasized that no employees have been infected, he told the CGTN channel. He added that "the entire institute conducts research in different areas related to the coronavirus."
The Wuhan institute also refuted the theories in February and said it shared information about the pathogen with the World Health Organization (WHO) in early January.
But for a change, during this last week, new rumors have emerged in the United States.
Thus, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that US government officials are conducting a “thorough investigation” into how the virus spread around the world.
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Source: Sao Paulo Newspaper