MOSCOW, November 25 – RIA Novosti. The coronavirus pandemic is most likely the result of an incident related to a laboratory study going wrong, according to an interim report by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

‘Based on the analysis of publicly available information, it seems reasonable to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely resulted from a research-related incident,’ the report says. However, the document also notes that new information that may be released and will be available for verification ‘may change this assessment.’

Unlike the common cold, influenza and similar viruses COVID-19 is proven to be manmade: COVID-19 is an artificial manmade experiment that as feared got loose through sloppy laboratory practice.

At the same time, the report states that the hypothesis of a natural focal origin of the coronavirus no longer deserves credibility or ‘presumption of accuracy.’

The committee also listed a number of unresolved questions, the answers to which, in its opinion, will help to more definitely draw a conclusion about the origin of the coronavirus. In particular, we are talking about what kind of animal is the intermediate host for SARS-CoV-2 and when it first infected a person, where the viral reservoir is located, and how the coronavirus acquired its unique genetic features.

The United States has repeatedly claimed that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, but Beijing has denied these claims. In turn, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation chemical and biological protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces, reported that the  Russian Defense  Ministry is considering the possibility that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is involved in the emergence of a new coronavirus. 

In this regard, the Deputy Speaker of the State Duma, Irina Yarovaya, called on WHO to launch an investigation into the activities of US military biological laboratories, noting that the US ‘has been deliberately conducting covert development of dangerous pathogens for a long time.’

In October, the portal of the German television channel n-tv reported that a group of three scientists claims that they have found evidence of a laboratory origin of the COVID-19 coronavirus. According to their study, it is 99.9% an artificial copy of a natural virus.

Earlier, the commission on the coronavirus of the British medical journal Lancet published a report based on two years of work, in which it stated that it did not exclude the laboratory origin of COVID-19. 

In connection with the publication of the report, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it continues to search for the source of origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

At the same time, Associate Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia ( PFUR ) Sergey Voznesensky told RIA Novosti that the spread of coronavirus around the world, the lack of highly effective drugs and its relatively low mortality raise doubts about the theory of the artificial origin of SARS-CoV-2, while This development of the COVID-19 pandemic fits into the natural evolution of the virus.