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WHO decided to dig deep into the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been largely speculated about. In 2023, a widely spread conspiracy theory claimed that the virus spread after it leaked from a Chinese laboratory. The theory took the world by storm and antagonized China in the eyes of the world.
The famous conspiracy theory implied that the pandemic that affected people all over the world was created in a lab. Theorists claimed that a team of scientists in the city of Wuhan, located in China, was the reason the virus “escaped.” Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) have dedicated 10 years of their research to studying coronaviruses in bats.
The people who believed in the conspiracy theory noted the close proximity of the Huanan, where the virus was first detected, and the WIV. The Hunan market and the lab are located 40 minutes away by drive.
BBC reported that the virus that spread was likely an “unaltered virus” that was “collected from the wild” and not “engineered” in a lab. Donald Trump, who was serving as the President of the United States, also backed the theory up.
Several people also alleged that the virus could have been a calculated move that was used as a “biological weapon.
