It is the most explosive question of the corona crisis: Did the virus come from the laboratory of the virological institute in Wuhan?
More and more experts are expressing the suspicion that Corona has no natural origin, but was the result of a laboratory accident in Wuhan. US President Joe Biden (78) even asked his secret service apparatus at the end of May to investigate this question with all his might and to submit a report to him within 90 days.
Not only the Chinese regime, but also the Wuhan researchers themselves are suspected of having covered up the laboratory accident. For example, Prof. Roland Wiesendanger (59, University of Hamburg) accuses the Chinese of having “deleted large amounts of data about the corona virus as early as September 2019”.
Now Prof. Christian Drosten (48), chief virologist at the Charité and corona advisor to the government, is also joining the laboratory debate.
In February 2020 Drosten had already signed a statement by international researchers in the specialist magazine “The Lancet”, which clearly spoke against the laboratory theory. It said: “Together we condemn in the strongest possible terms conspiracy theories that claim that Covid-19 has no natural origin.”
Drosten: “No evidence” for allegations against Wuhan scientists
When asked by BILD, Drosten reaffirmed his stance – and again stood behind the Wuhan researchers.
▶ Drosten said to BILD: “In February 2020, serious accusations against Chinese scientists were rampant in public. They were assumed to be actively involved in disguising a supposedly unnatural origin of COVID-19. There was no valid evidence or reliable evidence for this serious allegation. “
He signed the statement “to document my solidarity with these scientists”.
“Nothing has changed” in his scientific assessment of the situation. Drosten: “I currently have no evidence or reliable evidence that would support the above-mentioned allegations against the scientists.”
For the Charité virologist it is clear: “To the best of my knowledge, there is also no reliable information that suggests a non-natural origin of COVID-19.”
In an interview with the Swiss online magazine “Die Republik”, Drosten recently stated that he found it most plausible that the virus originated in the Chinese fur industry. Although the laboratory thesis “from a purely technical point of view” is within the scope of the possible, he considers the “idea of a research accident” to be “extremely unlikely”.
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