KAMPALA, September 3 (Xinhua) – It is important to stop politicizing COVID-19 and conduct science-based studies to identify the true origin of the coronavirus and its path to humans, a Ugandan analyst has said.
The US covid-19 tracking report has ruled out the possibility that the virus evolved as a biological weapon and suggested that it was probably “not genetically engineered”, said Allawi Ssemanda, executive director of the Development Watch Center, in an article published on New Vision – the website on Wednesday.
The hypothesis of a “laboratory leak” as a possible source of the virus concluded that it was “extremely unlikely” by the report from the joint mission of the China-World Health Organization, the researcher said in the article, noting that other scientific studies by well-known researchers have also suggested natural causes such as the source of the virus.
“The ‘lab leak theory’ and the ‘China virus’ are conspiracies aimed at creating a narrative that China (should) be held accountable for the COVID-19 outbreak, which plays into the political interests of some countries,” say researchers from Uppsala University and the Swedish Research Council were quoted in this article.
Source: sn.dk