Laboratory accident or natural origin? The origin of Covid-19 in focus!

Laboratory accident or natural origin? The origin of Covid-19 in focus!

New explosive information on the origin of the Coronavirus: According to the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), a laboratory accident in the Wuhan Institute of Virology could be responsible for the global outbreak of pandemic. This reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung , which states that the BND assessment was already developed in 2020. This was based on a comprehensive analysis of public data and secret service information, including worrying references to risky experiments and security violations within the laboratory. The likelihood of a laboratory outbreak is estimated at 80 to 95 percent, while a natural origin of the virus is considered significantly less likely, according to the reports.

China's reaction and WHO examinations

In response to the theses put forward, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, represented by spokeswoman Mao Ning, rejected any speculation about political maneuvers. Mao emphasized that scientific disputes should be carried out by experts and referred to the examinations of the World Health Organization (WHO), which had found that a leakage of the virus from the laboratory was "highly unlikely". The virologist Christian Drosten from the Berlin Charité also believes that a natural origin is quite likely, even if the Chinese government has so far not submitted sufficient evidence of this. The WHO repeatedly insisted on China's collaboration to comprehensively clarify the origins of Covid-19.

The political explosiveness of the topic remains high, especially since the German Federal Government and the World Health Organization (WHO) have so far not been extensively informed about the knowledge of the BND. The Chancellery has decided to commission external experts to check the BND data, including high-ranking scientists such as the President of the Robert Koch Institute, Lars Schade. While the search for the truth continues, the question of clarifying origins of the virus remains a central theme in the international debate and is intensively pursued by the US government and the Germans, as well as Tagesschau reported.