2024-03-16 11:53:00
Australian research team reveals origins of COVID-19 It looks like it came out of a lab. It doesn’t come from nature. Pointing out that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention have studied the coronavirus. Before the first group of people infected with Covid was found in Wuhan.
A new study by researchers in Australia Points out that the 2019 novel coronavirus or COVID-19 appears to have originated in a scientific laboratory. or lab rather than occurring naturally. After having doubts about the origins of COVID-19 for many years, since the discovery of COVID-19 disease The first outbreak occurred in Wuhan, Hebei Province, at the end of 2019, before the COVID virus spread throughout the world during 2020-2022.
A team of researchers in Australia used a risk analysis tool called the Grunow-Finke assessment to establish a level of probability of causing COVID-19. global pandemic The results showed that the COVID-19 virus It has a ‘non-natural’ origin, with the first cases being in the vicinity of a lab studying the coronavirus.
This study Emphasize that there are reports of people infected with COVID-19. The first cluster in Wuhan, China, on December 30, 2019, all of whom lived near the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, or WHCDC
Dr. Xin Chen, a researcher at the University of New South Wales in Australia, said the Wuhan Institute of Virology They have been conducting experiments on the SARS virus, which is similar to the coronavirus in bats, since 2010.
‘One of the viruses found in bats was studied at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Information was shared that it was 96.1% similar to the SAR-Cov-2 virus, with some information being revealed after the COVID-19 outbreak began.
Dr Chen said the Wuhan Institute of Virology was far from the Huanan Seafood Market. In Wuhan, just 8 miles away, where the first cases were found Some people link here. Meanwhile, the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention is also studying the coronavirus, and on December 2, 2019, less than a month before the first person infected with the virus was found.
‘It was moved only 280 meters away from the Huanan Seafood Market, which could increase the chance of accidents in the lab,’ Dr Chen said.
Dr. Chen added that Although some scientists have used the COVID outbreak at the Huanan wet market as As an indication that COVID-19 virus comes from nature or originates from animals But many people were infected in the first group. Didn’t go to Hua Nan Fresh Market which this matter This indicates the possibility that the Huanan fresh market is the source of the COVID virus outbreak. rather than being the source of origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus or COVID-19.
Researchers in Australia also highlighted unusual actions by scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. As a factor that causes the spread of COVID-19 Leaked out of the lab
Dr Abrar Chughtai, epidemiologist at the University of New South Wales It explains that in September 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s labs were handed over to civilian care. Let the military come in and control it. and contractors were hired to renovate Improve the ventilation system at this Institute of Virology.
Dr Chughtai also pointed out that the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s lab had poor biosafety measures. Some scientists did not wear proper protective equipment against the virus. While catching bats and still being bitten by them Moreover, in early November 2019, some staff from the Institute of Virology were hospitalized with COVID-19-like symptoms.
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