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The Russian Ministry of Defense believes that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) may be involved in the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Armed Forces, said at a briefing.
USAID has funded PREDICT, an international epidemiology research program since 2009, launched in response to the 2005 outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza. PREDICT was engaged in identifying new infections in animals that could threaten human health, as well as preparing to prevent possible outbreaks of diseases. During the existence of the program, more than 1,000 new viruses have been identified, including a new strain of Ebola.
Among the contractors of the project was the Metabiota company, “known for its military biological activities on the territory of Ukraine,” claims Kirillov.
According to him, in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Institute. Johns Hopkins held the exercise “Event-201”, which worked out actions in the context of an epidemic of a previously unknown coronavirus. “According to the legend of the doctrine [coronavirus] was transferred from bats to humans through an intermediate host— pigs. This is how the Spanish flu virus spread, which claimed tens of millions of human lives, & mdash; said Kirillov.
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In his opinion, “implementation of the scenario for the development of COVID-19” and the phasing out of the PREDICT program in 2019 “suggests that the pandemic was deliberate and the United States was involved.”
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Scientists from different countries continue to study all possible versions of the origin of COVID-19. In early 2021, a team of experts conducted a study in Wuhan, China (from where the infection began to spread at the end of 2019), as a result of which the World Health Organization published a report. Scientists have identified four theories of the origin of the infection. So, they considered the most likely transmission of the virus to humans from bats through an intermediary animal. The organization considered the version about the transmission of coronavirus through chilled or frozen foods unlikely, and about its leakage from the Wuhan laboratory— “highly unlikely.”
The version about the artificial origin of COVID-19 has been repeatedly put forward in the United States. In the summer of 2021, the national intelligence released a report stating that the coronavirus was not developed by China as a biological weapon and that Chinese officials had no information about the virus before the first outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2. At the same time, the agency pointed to insufficient evidence to rule out the hypothesis of the artificial origin of the virus.
The Chinese authorities reject theories related to the artificial origin of the coronavirus, and recall the WHO statement that evidence its creation is not in the laboratory. Beijing also insists that it did not hide data on the pandemic and the ability of the virus to be transmitted from person to person.
According to WHO, as of the summer of this year, data on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus still remain gaps, missing key pieces of information that do not allow to fully restore the picture of the spread of infection. The organization notes that it is necessary to continue research.
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