After the pandemic: China calls for BND indications of Corona reluctance

After reporting on the findings of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), China has warned to cautiously. It was about indications of the hypothesis that virus comes from a laboratory in China. “In the question of Coronavirus, China decidedly rejects any form of political maneuvers,” said Foreign Office Spokeswoman Mao Ning in Beijing. The People’s Republic takes the view that scientific questions should be assessed by scientists.

Mao referred to a group of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) that spoke to researchers relevant laboratories in Wuhan. This came to the conclusion that a seepage of the virus from there was “highly unlikely”, explained Mao.

However, the WHO has been emphasizing for four years that all hypotheses to the origin of the Virus Sars-Cov-2 are still on the table. The investigation in 2021 was only the beginning, not the end. The WHO only called China again at the end of December 2024 to “provide data and access so that we can understand the origins of Covid-19. This is a moral and scientific commandment.”

As several media reported, the Chancellery had asked scientists to examine the BND for claiming the Coronavirus from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. According to the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”, the BND had plausible information for the so -called laboratory thesis. These should therefore be evaluated by an expert round at meetings in recent months.

Information on the assessment of these experts was initially not available. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and the “Zeit” also report on appropriate research results. According to the laboratory thesis, the Sars-COV-2 virus comes from a Chinese organic laboratory, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where research is carried out on Coronaviruses. The second theory is that the virus, like that of the Sars epidemic from 2002/2003, had a natural origin.