According to an article by the Wall Street Journal in Monday, a report on the origin of the coronavirus conducted by a US state laboratory concluded that the hypothesis that the virus may have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China is reasonable and worth further investigation, quoting persons who have knowledge of the confidential document.
The report was compiled in May 2020 by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The State Department cited the findings in a report on the origins of the pandemic published in the last months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the WSJ reported.
The estimate of Lawrence Livermore scientists was based on the genetic analysis of the new coronavirus, according to the newspaper.
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The American laboratory refused to comment on the WSJ article.
US President Joe Biden announced in May that he had asked his advisers to find answers to the question of the origin of SARS-CoV-2.
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