The US intelligence services concluded that the coronavirus COVID-19, which reached the scale of a pandemic, was not grown artificially as a biological weapon. The nature of the virus has two possible forms of occurrence, but there are still not enough samples to confirm the hypotheses.
Reported by Reuters, referring to the words of the leadership of the US National Intelligence Office (ODNI). Research continues, but the government department has already denied that the virus is being targeted against humanity.
“It is most likely that the coronavirus was created naturally when an infected animal came into contact with a person or as a result of an error in laboratory work. Today, these two hypotheses have the same right to exist, but research continues,” the message says.
Recall that for the first time a complicated case of pneumonia, which was accompanied by an unusual cessation of the functions of the organs of smell and taste, was recorded in December 2019 in the Chinese province of China. Most of the cases were in close proximity to the food market in Wuhan, which sells a countless range of marine products, as well as reptiles, insects and bats. According to scientists, it was the direct contact of pangolins with a bat that recombined the coronaviruses of these animals, one of which was bought and eaten by the first patient with COVID-19.
As previously reported OBOZREVATEL, almost two years later, the coronavirus continues to mutate. New Delta strain causes patients to need in much more oxygen.
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