Today, Thursday, US intelligence admitted that its agencies have two theories regarding the origin of the Corona virus.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said, "Two agencies affiliated with it believe that it appeared naturally as a result of contact between humans and infected animals, while a third agency believes that an accident in a Chinese laboratory was the source of the global pandemic."

The office added, in a statement, that the US intelligence services do not know exactly where, when, or how the Corona virus was initially transmitted, but it is focusing on two possibilities, stressing that the majority of its agencies believe that there is insufficient information for evaluation to favor one over the other.

The DNI’s office statement did not specify which of the 17 agencies that make up the US intelligence community believe the virus originated in infected animals and which apparatus is believed to have originated from an accident in a laboratory.

Officials refused to discuss any devices that expressed initial views regarding the origin of the virus, but they stressed that the vast majority of American agencies believe that the information is insufficient to outweigh one of the possibilities for the origin of the virus over others.

A US intelligence report had revealed a few days ago that researchers from the Chinese "Wuhan" Institute had symptoms of the emerging corona virus, "Covid-19", and were hospitalized prior to the discovery of the epidemic.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the intelligence report revealed that 3 researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology showed symptoms similar to those of Corona in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized.

The newspaper stated that the report could add more pressure to the demand for a full investigation into whether the virus causing the pandemic appeared in the Wuhan laboratory for the first time.

The disclosure of the number of infected researchers, the timing of their infection, and their admission to hospital comes ahead of a meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss the next phase of the investigation into the origins of the virus.

Chinese denial

On the other hand, China vehemently denied US intelligence reports about scientists in the Wuhan laboratory infected with the virus, confirming that the news is unfounded.

On March 23, the Chinese Foreign Ministry stated that the Institute of Virology in Wuhan published a statement indicating that it had not been "in contact with the Corona virus before December 30, and that until this date no member of the crew or any trained researcher had been infected." With the virus. "

And according to what the Chinese authorities said, samples of the Corona virus were sent to this laboratory for study.

WHO spokesman Tariq Yasarevich said that the technical teams in the organization are now taking decisions regarding the next steps, indicating that more study is needed on the role of trade in animals, as well as the hypotheses for leakage from the laboratory.

China informed the World Health Organization on December 31 that it had detected a focus of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, at a time when Beijing strongly denies the theory that the virus had leaked from one of its laboratories.

In 2020, WHO experts concluded in a joint study with Chinese experts that the hypothesis that the virus had leaked due to a laboratory accident was "almost completely excluded."

The report of WHO experts favored the common hypothesis that the virus was transmitted naturally from an animal that is the source or reservoir, most likely bats, through another animal that has not yet been identified, and among the suspected animals are the cats, rabbits, mink and ferrets.