Covid, new doubts about the origin of the virus: the US report

The Wall Street Journal released the news of three Chinese virologists sick in Wuhan in autumn 2019, by turning the spotlight back on the debate on theorigin of the Coronavirus and bringing to the fore the Chinese city considered the epicenter of the pandemic.

“Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became ill in November 2019 to the point of requiring hospital care, according to a previously classified US intelligence report that could give further voice to the increasingly pressing demands for a ‘ full investigation “on the hypothesis” if the Covid-19 virus may have left the laboratory“, Reads the article published exclusively by the American newspaper.

The WSJ refers to a document that would have been drafted “in the last days of the Trump administration”. According to the report “several laboratory researchers, a center for the study of Coronaviruses and other pathogens, fell ill in autumn 2019 ‘with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and a common seasonal infection’ “.
The details of the “number of researchers, the period of illness and the visits” they have undergone “in the hospital come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization, which should discuss the next phase of an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 “.

The article emphasizes that, in intelligence circles, there is no unanimous position on the reliability of the report. One person, in particular, reported that the document would have been provided by an international partner: it would be “potentially significant – reads the newspaper – but further verifications and additional confirmations would be necessary “. For another person interviewed, the document is “solid”. “The information obtained from different sources was of excellent quality, very precise. He didn’t say exactly what they got sick of, ”referring to the researchers.

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