The U.S. Dept. of Energy reportedly concluded that the Wuhan coronavirus started spreading as a result of a lab leak in China, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The Chinese Foreign Ministry rejected the report on Monday, claiming that to entertain the theory would be to “smear China,” and demanded that America “quit politicizing origins-tracing.”
The coronavirus pandemic, according to the official line of the Chinese government, was produced by a laboratory breach at a U.S. Army facility in Fort Detrick, MD, and Washington concealed its spread with a misdiagnosis of lung damage brought on by e-cigarettes.
The Communist Party may be modifying its stance on diplomacy since Zhao Lijian, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson who has been most outspoken in promoting this conspiracy theory, was downgraded to a low-profile position at the Dept. of Boundary and Ocean Affairs in Jan. The Fort Detrick theory was not brought up by Mao Ning, who was Zhao’s replacement at the Foreign Ministry, in her statements on Monday.
“SARS-CoV-2 origins-tracing is a matter of science and should not be politicized, according to the virus that causes Wuhan coronavirus sickness.” In answer to a query about the Department of Energy report, “Mao stated that China has always supported and taken part in international science-based origins-tracing. The specialists of the W.H.O.-China joint mission came to the official, science-based opinion that a laboratory genesis of the pandemic was assessed to be extremely implausible following field tours to the lab in Wuhan and in-depth conversations with researchers.”
She said that it had “got great praise from the world community and had been appropriately reported in the mission’s report.”
The publishing in January 2021 of a fact sheet by the State Department showing that Washington had cause to think that numerous personnel at the plant had been hospitalized with unexplained illnesses in November 2019 was perhaps the most notable instance of the U.S. government making public statements expressing an interest in looking into the WIV. The information sheet, which has since been removed from State Department webpages following President Joe Biden’s inauguration, stated that Washington had “reason to suspect that some researchers inside the WIV were unwell in autumn 2019, prior to the first documented case of the epidemic, with symptoms consistent with both [Wuhan coronavirus] and common seasonal illnesses.”In his conclusion, “Mao said that certain parties should quit politicizing origins-tracing, disparaging China, and repeating the “lab leak” narrative.”
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a lab known as having been experimenting with bat coronaviruses just before the pandemic, is where the Dept. of Energy concluded that a leak at that location is most likely where the pandemic started, according to a classified report obtained by The Wall Street Journal on Sunday. Due to limited access to the WIV and the Chinese government’s destruction of crucial evidence, the report stated that the Dept. of Energy reached that judgment with “low confidence.”
“The FBI and the Energy Department now say that the virus likely spread due to an accident at a Chinese facility,” according to a report in the Journal. “Two agencies remain unsure, while four other agencies as well as a national intelligence body continue to believe that it was most likely the product of a natural transmission.”
People who have reviewed the classified study say that the Energy Dept. made their decision with “little confidence.”
The publishing in January 2021 of a fact sheet by the State Dept. showing that Washington had cause to think that numerous personnel at the plant had been hospitalized with unexplained illnesses in November 2019 was perhaps the most notable instance of the U.S. government making public statements expressing an interest in looking into the WIV. The information sheet, which has since been removed from State Department webpages following President Joe Biden’s inauguration, stated that Washington had “reason to suspect that some researchers inside the WIV were unwell in autumn 2019, prior to the first documented case of the epidemic, with symptoms that are consistent with both Wuhan coronavirus and the common seasonal illnesses.”
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