The US provided stunning evidence on the leakage of Covid from the Wuhan laboratory

The United States shared “stunning” evidence with the UK at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that suggested a “high probability” the virus had leaked from a Chinese laboratory. This was revealed by the newspaper “The Telegraph”, according to which during a meeting of the alliance between intelligence services known as the group Five Eyes (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia) held in January 2021 the issue was discussed. In particular, the United States reported that China had hidden military and coronavirus research activities in a laboratory in Wuhan. According to the “Telegraph”, however, in a previous phone call the then US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, presented evidence in support of this theory to former British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab and his counterparts from Canada, New Zealand and Australia . Two sources from the former presidential administration led by Donald Trump – at the time in power in the US – spoke to the “Telegraph” and accused Raab and the British government of having ignored the theory of the escape of the virus from the laboratory due to the reticence expressed by the government health team which, at the time, firmly supported a natural evolution of the virus.

“We saw several pieces of information and thought it was, frankly, astounding,” one former official said USA who worked with intelligence and former Secretary Pompeo. “Obviously there was a high probability that it was actually a virus that had escaped from a laboratory,” said the source, who said a State Department document indicated “constant obstructionism” by China after the discovery of the virus and accused Beijing officials of “gross corruption and ineptitude.” The research also revealed for the first time that Chinese military officers had worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the years before the pandemic and that some researchers at the laboratory had fallen ill shortly before the first cases of Covid infection were recorded. in Wuhan. The two former US officials explained that at the time the UK ignored the evidence presented by the US because the government in London labeled information on the potential leak of the virus from the laboratory as a “radioactive US political issue” fueled by public disagreement among government scientists and Donald Trump.