German Spy Agency “believed that Covid is likely

According to German media, German media believed that the German media had a chance for 80-90%that Coronavirus accidentally traced from the Chinese laboratory.

Two German newspapers say they revealed the details of an assessment conducted by a BND spy in 2020 but never published.

The intelligence service had signs that the Virgina Institute conducted experiments where viruses change to become more advanced for people for research, they say.

China repeated the denial, saying that the reason “should be determined by scientists” – and pointed to the investigation into the World Health Organization, which found that the theory of the laboratory “extremely unlikely”.

There is no consensus on the cause of the pandemic.

Hypothesis Laboratory leakage was very challenged by scientistsIncluding many who say there is no final evidence to reinforce it.

But once the controversial theory acquired a position among some special services – and BND is the last one that entertains the theory. In January, said the American CIA Coronavirus was “more likely” to leak out of the laboratory than comes from animals.

In the hall by the time and Sueddeutscher zeitungBND met in Berlin in 2020 to look into the origin of the Coronavirus in an operation called Project Saaremaa.

He appreciated the theory of the laboratory as “probable”, although it had no final evidence.

The BND also found signs that there were several security violations in the laboratory.

The assessment was ordered by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but it has never been public.

According to the documents, the results were distributed from the CIA last fall.

In January this year, the CIA stated that “the pandemic associated with the study was more likely than natural origin,” based on the presence of reporting, “although it was” low confidence “in this definition.

Both BND and the Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, refused to comment.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Nin said in response: “We believe that the conduct of the COVID-19 is a scientific issue that scientists with a scientific approach should determine.

“The conclusion that the lab leak is extremely unlikely, was reached by a joint expert group of China after visiting the relevant laboratory in Wuhan and in -depth discussions with the researchers.

“This authoritative scientific conclusion was widely recognized by the international community and the scientific community.

“China firmly opposes any form of political manipulations on the COVID-19 origin.”

In the course of the WHO investigation in the early 2021, when a team of scientists flew into the ear to look into the pandemic source.

Having spent 12 days there, which included a visit to the laboratory, the team concluded that the theory of the laboratory was “extremely unlikely”.

But since then many have questioned their conclusions, and one excellent group of scientists has criticized the WHO report for not taking the theory of the laboratory quite seriously-it was rejected on several pages of the report on several pages.

Proponents of the hypothesis of natural origin – which was supported in the WHO report – say, Covid -19 appeared in bats, and then jumped up to humans, most likely through another animal or the “mediator”.

This hypothesis was widely accepted at the beginning of the pandemic, but over time, scientists did not find the virus either in the bats or another animal, which corresponds to the genetic composition of the COVID-19, which made some doubt in the theory.