The Ministry of Defense admitted the involvement of the United States in the emergence of COVID-19

The Ministry of Defense claims that in the United States before the COVID-19 pandemicexercises took placewhere they practiced actions in an epidemic of a previously unknown coronavirus

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 the PREDICT international epidemiology research program since 2009, which was launched in response to the 2005 H5N1 avian influenza outbreak. PREDICT was engaged in identifying new infections in animals that could threaten human health, as well as preparing to prevent possible disease outbreaks. During the existence of the program, more than 1000 new viruses have been identified, including a new strain of Ebola.

Among the contractors for the project was Metabiota, "known for its military-biological activities on the territory of Ukraine," says Kirillov.

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According to him, in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Institute. Johns Hopkins held the Event-201 exercise, which practiced 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," Kirillov said.

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In his opinion, “the implementation of the COVID-19 development scenario” and the curtailment of the PREDICT program in 2019 “suggest the deliberate nature of the pandemic and US involvement in its occurrence.”

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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), following 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 - "extremely unlikely."

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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 an artificial origin of the virus.

The Chinese authorities reject theories related to the artificial origin of the coronavirus, and are reminded of the WHO statement that there is no evidence of its creation in the laboratory. Beijing also insists that it did not hide data about 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, there are still gaps in the data on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, there are no key pieces of information that do not allow a complete picture of the spread of the infection to be restored. The organization notes that further research is needed.