US Investigation: COVID-19 Pandemic Caused by Laboratory Leak in China
A Republican-led US House of Representatives committee has completed a two-year investigation into the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. They believe that the virus is of laboratory origin and spread as a result of a leak from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
This is stated in the report of the Special Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the US Congress.
The US Committee cites the following arguments that confirm the artificial origin of the virus:
The virus has a biological characteristic that does not occur in nature.
Data indicate that all COVID-19 cases originated from a single human introduction. This contradicts evidence from previous pandemics.
Wuhan is home to China's leading SARS research laboratory, which ‘has a history of conducting research on enhancing the functionality of viruses under inadequate levels of biosafety’.
Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology contracted a COVID-like virus in autumn 2019, several months before COVID-19 was detected on the market.
By almost all scientific criteria, if there was evidence of natural origin, it would have been found by now.
The report was led by Republican Congressman Brad Wenstrap.
On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization declared a state of emergency due to COVID-19.
In three years, the organisation has recorded 7 million deaths, but the actual number of deaths, according to the WHO, could reach 20 million. The global emergency due to COVID-19 was cancelled in 2023.
In December 2023, UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced the need to prepare for future pandemics and act on lessons learned,