Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, from which the EU is only now recovering, Chinese scientists were developing at least two coronavirus vaccines, according to a report by the US Senate Health Committee published by Axios.

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The conclusions of the investigation do not specifically answer the question of how the pandemic began, but assess two leading theories: transmission of the virus from wild animals to humans and an accident in a Chinese government laboratory.. According to the Republican senators who worked on the report, the latest version is stronger.

Senators note that both theories lack key supporting evidence that can only be obtained by intelligence or remain unknown.. In their version of the spread of the virus from the laboratory, the senators rely on the following theses:.

scientists have not found any natural viruses with the same composition as the coronavirus;

there is evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan before the first known wet market cases were reported;

Chinese researchers appear to have started developing at least two COVID vaccines in November 2019 (before the pandemic outbreak);

in 2019, when the virus could have appeared, numerous complaints about the safety of Chinese laboratories were recorded.

In early April 2023, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on the PRC authorities to share information about the origin of COVID-19, saying that " In response, China rejected the accusations of the WHO and urged the organization not to become a tool for politicizing the issue of the origin of the coronavirus..

Read about why booster vaccination is important in the article by Fedor Lapiy on ZN. U.A..