The US shared “striking” evidence with the UK at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic suggesting a “high probability” the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory. This was revealed by The Telegraph newspaper, which reported that the issue was discussed during a meeting of the alliance between the intelligence services known as the Five Eyes Group (the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia), which was held last January. 2021. In particular, the United States reported that China concealed military and coronavirus-related research activities in a laboratory in Wuhan. But according to The Telegraph, in a previous phone call, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo presented evidence supporting this theory to former British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and his counterparts from Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. Two sources from the previous presidential administration led by Donald Trump – who was in power in the United States at the time – spoke to The Telegraph and accused Raab and the British government of ignoring the theory of the virus escaping from the laboratory due to the reservation expressed by the government health team, which at the time strongly supported the natural evolution of the virus.

“We saw several pieces of information and we thought it was frankly astonishing,” said a former US official who worked with intelligence and former Secretary Pompeo. “It is clear that there is a high probability that a virus leaked from the laboratory,” the source said, noting that the State Department document referred to “continuous obstruction” by China after the discovery of the virus and accused Beijing officials of “serious violations.” Corruption and ignorance.” The research also revealed for the first time that Chinese military officers worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the years before the pandemic and that some researchers at the lab became ill shortly before the first cases of Covid were recorded in Wuhan. The two former US officials explained that in that Time The UK ignored evidence provided by the US because the government in London described information about the possible leak of the virus from the laboratory as a “radioactive US political issue” fueled by a public dispute between the government and Donald Trump.