Recently, the American Fox News Channel has repeatedly targeted the Wuhan Virus Research Institute.
A few days ago, a similar question was asked in a press conference about the fact that the new Corona virus was leaked from the institute, where US President Donald Trump replied that he would conduct a thorough investigation into the matter.
It is a clear effort to divert the attention of the public opinion from the failure of the American administration to face the epidemic and try to find a “scapegoat”, by blaming China, to provoke the world’s countries against it.
It has been observed that, since the outbreak of the epidemic, the Wuhan Virus Research Institute has been under constant attack from politicians and the media in the United States, and this is due to two main reasons:
The first is that the institute is close to the seafood market in Wuhan, where early confirmed cases of infection were discovered, and it also includes the first level-four laboratory for biosafety (P4) in China, and has achieved important results in tracking the SARS virus, and they have claimed A problem with the institute’s safety standards, which led to the leakage of the new virus.
The second: It is the rumors that the institute participates in the research and development of biological and chemical weapons.
They also say that even if the virus is not a biological and chemical weapon that China intends to develop, this indicates that it has caught up with the United States in virus research.
It can be seen that these attacks are full of self-speculation and absurd inferences, without any realistic basis, and all are based on imagination, as the Wuhan Virus Institute has close relations and cooperation projects with scientific bodies in the United States, France and other countries, among them, the fourth-level biosafety laboratory (P4), An important science and technology cooperation project between the governments of China and France.
The BBC has recently released reports indicating that although the level of laboratory biosafety is not mandatory in international treaties, the rigor of their management and standards have a worldwide professional consensus.
It quoted Philippa Linzos, a biosafety researcher at King’s College London, as saying that any country’s virus laboratory involved in international projects must meet global biosafety levels; and if it does scan viruses, it must also meet international standards.
It can be said that her statements represent recognition by the international scientific community of the scientific and safe management of the Wuhan Virus Research and Safety Center.
BBC reports also said that there is no evidence to prove that the new corona virus has leaked from the Wuhan Virus Research Center or other laboratories, at least for now.
It should be noted that the Wuhan Center has been conducting studies and research on the new Corona virus from its inception, and discovered with the relevant institutions in the country the genetic sequence of the virus, which laid a solid foundation for other countries of the world to determine methods of testing and the development of vaccines.
As for the question about whether the virus originated from nature or is it artificial.
Many experts and scholars in the field of public health from the World Health Organization and others gave a clear answer to it, and 27 experts from around the world confirmed in an electronic statement published by the widespread medical journal (Lancet) on the 18th of last February, they rejected the rumors that That the origin of Covid-19 is unnatural, denouncing the relevant conspiracy theories.
The American Science Daily also reported in recent reports that there is no evidence to prove that an artificial virus was synthesized by laboratories, after analyzing the common genome of the new corona virus and related viruses.
On Monday (20 April), WHO Director-General Tidros Adhanom Gebresos issued a warning that the worst moments are to come, calling for the new Corona virus not to be used for political purposes, because the epidemic is a painful suffering that humankind faces jointly and cannot be overcome. Except by strengthening cooperation and solidarity.
Those trying to politicize the epidemic must realize that they will never achieve their goals of discrediting China, and their behavior to evade responsibility and cast it on others will not solve the urgent crisis, but will only reveal their failure to perform their duties and ignore the safety of the lives of the common people.
Source : China International Radio
