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The US news channel CNN on Tuesday quoted three sources as contradicting the corresponding suspicions of US President Donald Trump and, more recently, of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the new Sars-CoV-2 virus.
“It is very likely that it occurred naturally and that human infections occurred through the natural interaction between humans and animals,” the station quoted one diplomat as saying. On Sunday, Pompeo told ABC there was “significant” evidence that the crisis started in a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
The CNN news channel cited another source that these statements went far beyond the current perception of the United States’ five-eyed intelligence alliance with Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. He did not want to rule out the possibility, but said there was still nothing available to justify the theory of a laboratory accident. China had also rejected the theory. Comments in the Chinese state media saw a strategy by the United States government to blame China for distracting itself from its own failures in the pandemic.
The prominent adviser and immunologist of the United States government, Anthony Fauci, does not believe that the virus was artificially created either. “Many highly skilled biologists have said that everything about gradual evolution over time strongly suggests that it originated in nature and has crossed the species line,” Fauci told National Geographic magazine. Nor does he believe in the theory that the virus has escaped from the laboratory and reached humans in this way.
