in the United States stated that the authorities of China did not know in advance about the existence of COVID-19 until the researchers of the Wuhan Institute of Virology had not allocated the virus after its official recognition. Beijing’s not accuracy to the appearance of coronavirus is stated in the report of the Office of the US National Intelligence Director, RIA Novosti reports.
According to the document, the US intelligence community believes that even if the pandemic began as a result of the laboratory incident in China, the leadership of the country in the first months, most likely did not know about the incident. It is also noted that Beijing did not create a coronavirus as a biological weapon.
Previously, scientists from the United States put forward a new version of the appearance of the Coronavirus SARS-COV-2. They suggest that he could evolve from an infection found from a Chinese miner who infected in 2012.