Diplomatic dispatch of the US state Department two years ago about the situation in the Wuhan Institute of Virology has served to advance the claims of the administration to trump that coronavirus could “escape” from a laboratory in Wuhan.
the State Department issued a diplomatic dispatch in 2018, in which it was noted that in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, “there is a serious lack of adequately trained technical specialists and researchers necessary for safe operation of the laboratory with a high level of protection”.
the dispatch also says, as the Washington Post reported that scientists in Wuhan laboratory was allowed to study received from bat SARS-like coronaviruses, but they were forbidden to study human disease-causing atypical pneumonia (SARS) coronaviruses in their laboratories, if not received explicit permission from the special Commission.
the Contents pozaproshlogodnie cables, a leak which occurred earlier this year, served as the basis for unproven claims members of the administration to trump and members of Congress that the coronavirus could escape from the laboratory at the epicenter of the virus, CNN reports.
In dated January 2018 the message that after the trial according to the Law on freedom of information received the edition of the Washington Post, noted that the relations between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and medical Department of the University of Texas in Galveston can help to solve the problem of shortage, and, reportedly, American schools preparing technicians for work in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In the second telegram about the Wuhan Institute of Virology from April 2018 was mentioned a French official saying that “the French experts provided laboratory guidance and training on Biosafety, which will continue”.
according to CNN, Secretary of state Mike Pompeo was one of the most vocal supporters of the idea, suggesting that a deadly virus could escape from Hansker Institute of Virology.
Although Pompeo continues to strongly criticize the Chinese government for its role in failing to stop the outbreak of a pandemic and the lack of transparency, recently the Secretary of state seems to have abandoned the theory that the virus has definitely occurred in the laboratory. In an interview in mid-may he acknowledged: “We know that it started in Wuhan, but we do not know where and from whom, and that’s the important thing.”
while Secretary of state Pompeo and President Donald trump earlier this year claimed that they had seen evidence linking the outbreak with the laboratory in Wuhan, according to the scientists, “highly unlikely” that the virus originated in the laboratory.
As recalled by the Washington Post in may, President don��ice trump said that he saw evidence that gave him “high confidence” that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory. When asked why he was so sure of it, trump replied, “I can’t say. I’m not allowed to tell you this”.
“I see no evidence in support of the idea that it [the virus] was released intentionally or unintentionally – quoted Washington Post review of the content of the disclosed diplomatic cables, which gave the Director of the Center for infection and immunity at Columbia University’s Ian Lipkin. – You can’t just say that someone is guilty of accidental spread of the virus. It is required to prove.”
Other experts downplay the importance of criticism by telegram about the qualifications of the laboratory staff. “There is a constant global problem in maintaining the appropriate qualification of the workforce. All companies around the world face this problem,” – said the Director for public health and Biosafety in the Scientific and industrial research organization Commonwealth Rob Grenfell.
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