Downing Street blasts MI6’s chief’s ‘fanciful claims’ that coronavirus was man-made in Chinese lab
He also said that the report could force China to pay "reparations" to the rest of the world for the death toll and economic hardship wrought by the virus.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has also rebuked Sir Dearlove's claims, saying there is "no evidence" to back the lab-grown theory. Sir Richard isn't the only high ranking UK spy or intelligence expert to field the theory that it was man-made. The former anti-bio-terrorism specialist and commander of British troops in Afghanistan said: "It is very likely to be the case. I was also led to believe governments were very unlikely to come out and say it outright, but that China had been made aware that intelligence agencies had significant evidence."
A former spy chief claims Covid-19 didn't occur naturally in the wild, but may have been created instead by Chinese scientists- most likely bats or pangolins - before jumping to the human population in a Wuhan wet market. The paper claims that there are 'inserted sections' in the DNA of the virus, and warns that current efforts to develop a vaccine are doomed - because the virus has been misunderstood.Sir Richard says it could raise questions about how China will compensate affected countriesSir Richard called the study a "very important contribution to a debate which is now starting" about how the virus evolved and then turned into a pandemic.
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