Sputnik
by Oleg Burunov – August 24, 2021
On Tuesday, a US intelligence report on COVID-19’s origins, ordered by President Joe Biden in May, is due to be placed on the president’s desk. Earlier in the day, Beijing suggested that the document will contain a number of “predetermined conclusions” to shift responsibility for the coronavirus pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from an infected wild animal rather than a lab leak, a new scientific report has revealed.
In a recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell, experts from across the world presented evidence that the theory of an animal passing the coronavirus to a human at a live animal market in Wuhan is more probable than the scenario of the virus emanating from a laboratory leak.