DISINFO: Coronavirus might be US bacteriological weapon against China
SUMMARY
Mutation, secret laboratory or provocation: where does Coronavirus come from? Spreading Coronavirus is in the interest of the USA because American laboratories are operating not only around Russia but in the surroundings of Asian countries. One of them is Lugar Lab.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory with no evidence given, based on recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the biological weapons and Lugar Lab.
The claim contains other conspiracy theories, claiming that Americans want to exterminate Chinese people from inside; coronavirus was created artificially, and that spreading Coronavirus is in the interest of American pharmaceutical corporations.
According to the BBC, the coronavirus could have been passed to humans from animals. For example, a similar virus, SARS, which broke out in China in 2002-2003, was spread from bats, killing around 800 people.
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