NEW YORK (Dagbladet): It is Wall Street Journal, who first mentioned the report. According to the newspaper, the report provides new details about the number of researchers who were affected, the time when they became ill, and their hospital visits.
According to the report, there will be three researchers who may have hospital treatment for corona-like symptoms.
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According to the report, the researchers must have become ill several weeks before the first confirmed case of covid-19 in China on 8 December 2019.
This is now helping to increase the pressure for a larger investigation into whether the virus first appeared in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) laboratory. Some suspect that the virus ended up as a pandemic after being leaked from the laboratory.
Not convinced
One of America’s foremost infection control experts, Anthony Fauci, is now also opening up the possibility that the virus first appeared in a laboratory.
During the United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking event earlier this month, he was asked if he was convinced that the virus originated naturally.
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– No, actually. I’m not convinced of that. I think we should continue to investigate what was going on in China until we find out as much as we can about what happened. People who investigate it say that it probably originated from an animal reservoir that infected individuals, but it may have been something else. And that’s what we need to find out, Fauci said Fox News.
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The intelligence report appeared the same evening that the World Health Organization (WHO) met to discuss the next phase of the investigation into how Covid-19 originated.
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“The Biden administration continues to question the earliest days of the pandemic – including its origins in China,” a spokesman for the US National Security Council said. Reuters.
Queuing system worries
She says President Joe Biden and his administration want to support the WHO’s work to bring about an expert-led investigation into the origin of the virus “free from interference or politicization”
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken condemned China in April for not being open about the first days of the pandemic.
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China’s foreign ministry pointed out on Sunday that a WHO team visited the institute in February this year and concluded that it was extremely unlikely that the virus would spread after a leak from there.
– The United States continues to hype the laboratory leak theory. Are they actually concerned with tracking the source or are they trying to divert attention? asks the Chinese authorities in a statement, according to Reuters.
China refused to give the WHO team access to raw data on the first corona cases, which has complicated the work of finding out how the outbreak occurred.
New details about scandal
Trump’s suspicion
Many researchers last year rejected allegations that covid-19 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, but the theory quickly became popular among conservative politicians in the United States, who blamed China for the pandemic. Now democratic politicians also want to investigate whether the virus did not originate in nature.
The Trump administration said, among other things, that they suspected that the virus could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory. China has since denied this.
Towards the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, the US State Department published a fact sheet. It read: “US authorities have reason to believe that several researchers at WIV became ill in the autumn of 2019 before the first identified cases of the outbreak, with symptoms similar to both covid-19 and common seasonal disease.”
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