US intelligence is studying genetic data on viruses from a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. This was announced on Thursday, August 5, by the television company CNN, citing its sources.
The publication does not have accurate information on when and how the US intelligence could gain access to this data, but does not exclude that this happened after the hacking of servers related to research in a laboratory in Wuhan.
– Now the United States has information about 22 thousand viruses that were studied in the Wuhan laboratory. The array of genetic information requires careful study; the work is carried out using supercomputers in the laboratories of the US Department of Energy. The analysis is complicated by the fact that the accompanying notes are in Chinese. The deadline for the completion of the work has not yet been determined, ”the TV company’s report says.
As the website kp.ru wrote, the day before, the former chief sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko called the US report on the leakage of coronavirus from a laboratory in Wuhan fantastic. The deputy noted that the Americans based the investigation on indirect evidence.
