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Laboratory accident as the origin of corona: US ministry fuels debate

The debate about the origin of the corona pandemic has been reignited. What could be done to bring light into the darkness?

The Wuhan Institute of Virology has been researching coronaviruses from bats for years. Quite a few assume that Sars-CoV-2 spread to humans for the first time after a laboratory accident.

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The US Department of Energy and the head of the FBI are re-igniting the debate about the origin of the corona pandemic. “The FBI has held for some time that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential laboratory event,” Director Christopher Wray told Fox News on Tuesday. As the “Wall Street Journal» had already reported last Sunday, after examining further information, the Ministry of Energy also came to the conclusion that a laboratory accident was likely. The nature of the information received was not disclosed on request.

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