Infectionist questioned WSJ data on COVID-19 leak in Wuhan

In Southeast Asia, where CHINA is located, there are all conditions for the development of viruses, infectious disease specialist, professor, DOCTOR of medical sciences Nikolai Malyshev told RBC, commenting on an article in The Wall Street Journal about the origin of COVID- 19 .

“I am a supporter of the fact that this all happened naturally. And now there are messages “they invented”, “these invented” - everyone wants to cling to this all or blame the other. Nature is so diverse, wide that it can think of everything, and there is no need for a person here, ”said Malyshev.

RBC sent a request to the Chinese Embassy and the Institute of Virology in Wuhan.

According to the WSJ, the US Department of Energy , which oversees a network of national laboratories, considered a CORONAVIRUS leak from a laboratory in Wuhan to be the likely cause of the pandemic. Thus, the department joined the opinion of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): the virus probably spread as a result of an incident in a Chinese laboratory. Intelligence, in turn, adheres to the hypothesis of the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2.

In mid-February, the World HEALTH Organization (WHO) suspended its investigation into the origin of the coronavirus. The second stage of the verification, during which they were supposed to study the version of a laboratory leak, was slowed down by China, which refused to cooperate with WHO experts. The organization previously called the possibility of a SARS-CoV-2 leak minimal.