(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany's top virologist: "New Corona Virus is derived from the laboratory" is extremely unreliable. China's vaccine development has made beneficial progress
China News Agency, Berlin, April 25 (Reporter Peng Dawei) In response to the conspiracy theory that "the new crown virus originated from the Wuhan laboratory accident", Christian Dross, Germany's top virologist and director of the Virology Institute of the Charit Medical School in Berlin Teng said on the 24th local time that this statement was "extremely untrustworthy." He also noted the progress China has made in the development of inactivated vaccines, and believed that inactivated vaccines are conducive to rapid mass production worldwide.
Drosten was one of the co-discoverers of SARS virus in 2003, and developed a diagnostic method for SARS virus. Since the outbreak of the New Crown epidemic, he has been invited to provide advice to the German Federal Government in fighting the epidemic, and insists on interpreting the development of the epidemic to the public in the media. It is regarded by German public opinion as one of the country's most authoritative voices during the epidemic.
In an exclusive interview with the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" published on the 24th, Drosten was asked how to view the rumor that the "new coronavirus originated in a laboratory accident in Wuhan". He responded that the bat coronavirus similar to the new coronavirus in this outbreak only exists in the head of the bat, and it is impossible to simply raise the bat in a laboratory, and people will not be there easily. The laboratory was infected with such a virus by mistake.
Drosten emphasized that due to the "barrier", bat coronavirus will not be easily transmitted to humans. "All I can say is that this (first-rate speech) sounds extremely unbelievable."
In fact, as early as February of this year, Drosten and 26 other internationally renowned scientists published a statement in the authoritative medical journal "The Lancet", condemning the conspiracy theory that the new crown virus was not of natural origin.
On the same day, Drosten also talked about the latest developments in the development of a new crown vaccine in China in the podcast interview column of North German Radio. He said that after the Chinese research team's new coronavirus inactivated vaccine was tested on rhesus monkeys, the lungs of rhesus monkeys were completely protected. He described the results of the research published on the preprinted biological sciences paper platform as "already surprising."
For the selection of inactivated vaccine, Drosten believes that there are already a large number of equipment that can be used to produce inactivated vaccines worldwide, even in less developed countries, so inactivated vaccines can be used in multiple countries at the same time. Mass production. He said that even though Germany may not eventually adopt an inactivated vaccine, the development of inactivated vaccines is still "valuable." (Finish)