The Labour government are preparing to fall in line with growing international consensus that the Covid-19 virus originated from a Wuhan laboratory leak, as opposed to the initial theory of it starting from a ‘wet market’
The Government are planning to change it’s official view of the origins of Covid-19 and fall in line with the growing agreement that the virus was due to a leak from a Wuhan laboratory.
The adjustment in view comes after a previous report by the CIA, that the most probable explanation for the historic pandemic was indeed a leak from the Chinese laboratory.
In response to a question from Tory peer Lord Kempsell, health minister Baroness Merron said: “[The Government] has noted the Central Intelligence Agency’s assessment and will continually review our own assessment of the origins of the virus, considering any new intelligence.”
Previously, the most common theory was that Coronavirus was the result of zoonotic’ animal-to-human transmission in a market.
In his recent memoir, Unleashed, Boris Johnson said that he believed it started with a lab leak, Mail Online reported. He wrote: “The awful thing about the whole Covid catastrophe is that it appears to have been entirely man-made, in all its aspects. It now looks overwhelmingly likely that the mutation was the result of some botched experiment in a Chinese lab.”
Previously, the Daily Star reported on how top scientists have poured cold water on the idea that Covid-19 escaped from a lab, instead insisting it originated from Wuhan’s infamous “wet market”.
Genetic detective work on samples from animals sold in the market back in 2019 revealed signs of the virus, suggesting they were the initial source of human infection.
Kristian Andersen from Scripps Research, who authored the study, stated: “This adds another layer to the accumulating evidence that all points to the same scenario: that infected animals were introduced into the market in mid to late November 2019, which sparked the pandemic.”
For the first time, researchers believe they’ve identified the critters that could have passed the virus to humans. The raccoon dog, an animal resembling a fox found across East Asia, is now in the spotlight as a potential major transmitter. Other creatures like masked palm civets, hoary bamboo rats, and Malayan porcupines also tested positive for carrying the virus before it jumped to humans.