More than half of the American intelligence services believe that the new coronavirus began to spread from the laboratory in Wuhan

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The publication States that a large part of the US intelligence community inclined to the version according to which the virus could start to spread because of some mistakes made by laboratory staff

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The United States has sufficient evidence to suggest that the coronavirus COVID-19 began to spread around the world from a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan. About it as transfers “Interfax”, said on Sunday in interview to the American TV channel ABC News U.S. Secretary of state Michael Pompeo. “We said from the beginning that the virus appeared in Wuhan, she added, – now can see the whole world”.

He noted that many experts believe that the virus has an artificial origin, at the same time, adding that it is aware of reports of scientists who on the basis of DNA tests say about the natural origin COVID-19.

Pompeo declined to answer the question of whether the spread of the virus was intentional or it happened as a result of the incident in the lab.

More than half of the American intelligence services believe that the new coronavirus began to spread from the laboratory in Wuhan. This statement is contained in the material published on the website of Fox News channel, reports TASS.

According to a source from the staff of the security services, “70-75% of the 17 intelligence agencies of the United States” believe that the virus came from that lab.

Other intelligence services are unable to agree with this, because I believe that irrefutable evidence is not available, the channel says. A list of us agencies that adhere to a particular point of view regarding the origin of the virus, the material is not given.

The publication States that a large part of the US intelligence community inclined to the version according to which the virus could start to spread because of some mistakes made by laboratory staff.

In another version of the source channel, the U.S. government had previously received intelligence reports that prove the fact that the Chinese leadership “learned about the spread of the coronavirus] between people before it submits”. In addition, this information allegedly indicates that in the first weeks after the outbreak of the disease causing it, the virus has spread wider than reported by the Chinese side.

The TV channel said that employees of the US intelligence has not confirmed the authenticity of the materials published earlier, the Australian newspaper the Daily Telegraph. The Australian newspaper has published the findings of the experts of the intelligence services of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.

In the report, in particular, argues that the intelligence services in these countries came to the conclusion that the Chinese side deliberately concealed information about the spread of the coronavirus. The source channel said that the U.S. intelligence community has come however to similar conclusions.

The Australian newspaper wrote that the Chinese authorities had information that the virus is transmitted from person to person, in early December, but officially acknowledged it is only January 20th.

All this time, the Chinese government withheld information about the virus, did not give the words of the doctors, destroying evidence in the laboratories and refused to provide samples of live virus, the international medical community.

U.S. Secretary of state Michael Pompeo on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News expressed confidence that the Chinese authorities tried to conceal some information about the spread of the coronavirus and will be held accountable. He did not specify what measures he plans to take Washington.

On Friday, the President of the United States Donald trump said about the confidence that the source of the spread of the coronavirus was a Chinese laboratory.

The trump expressed dissatisfaction with the way the who reacted to the pandemic coronavirus and “too loyal” attitude to China. He suspended the funding organization at the time of the investigation, which should identify who’s role in the “failures in preventing the spread of coronavirus and concealing information about it.”

The US administration has begun to explore the possibility of using against China the various measures in connection with the pandemic. In the words of the Washington Post, the U.S. government began to “develop a strategy for the application of measures of retaliation against China.”

In turn, the Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of China Le Yucheng in an interview with journalists of the TV channel NBC stated that any claims for compensation put forward by Beijing in connection with the coronavirus, are absurd and are a “political farce.”

The Chinese diplomat also expressed regret that “some politicians are using the situation with the virus for defamation of China.” However, he reiterated that Beijing “did not hide any information” about the coronavirus.

Who believes Chinese origin COVID-19 unlikely.