The American "NBC News" network said that American and British intelligence agencies are studying a report indicating an emergency event at the Virus Laboratory in Wuhan, China, last October, and it is the laboratory that has been hovering over Western accusations related to the emergence of the emerging corona virus.
The website reported that the aforementioned report is a special analysis of mobile phone data in that region.
The report shows the disruption of mobile activity in a highly guarded part of that laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology from October 7 to 24 October 2019, and indicates that a "serious event" may have occurred there between 6 and 11 of the same month.
The American Network said that its verification unit obtained a copy of the said report.
It is not evidence
and the network indicated that this information does not provide direct evidence for the closure of the laboratory and does not support the theory of the emergence of the virus inside the laboratory in error.
The US administration has repeatedly accused China of hiding information about the origins of the Coronavirus, and said it could have prevented the disease from developing into a global pandemic that would kill hundreds of thousands and shake the global economy.
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US officials, led by President Donald Trump, said the virus was likely to have leaked from the Wuhan laboratory by mistake.
Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that there is evidence in the United States that the virus came out of the Wuhan lab, but that China has categorically denied this, and demanded that the US side show those alleged evidence to substantiate its claims.
WHO experts as well as US officials have ruled out the hypothesis of deliberately creating the virus, asserting that its source is natural, but the international organization has not discussed the hypothesis of its accidental leakage from a Chinese laboratory.
China announced the discovery of a new corona virus in the central city of Wuhan late last year, and initial reports linked the emergence of the virus to a market in the city where wild animals are sold.
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The first known case of infection in China was traced to November 17th, but some researchers began to question the chronology, given that a case was documented in France in December.
The document, reported by NBC, indicates that the infection started before the date announced by China.