The Duma speaker says that damage caused by Covid 19 to countries worldwide should be covered by Washington if the US bioresearch origin claim is confirmed.
The Russian State Duma speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Wednesday that the US may owe the world huge compensation for the damage caused by the Covid 19 epidemic. He cited remarks made by the chair of the Lancet Commission on the disease, who suggested that the SARS-CoV- 2 virus may have originated from an American research program.
Speaking in Madrid last month, economist Jeffrey Sachs called the current situation a mess and blamed the diminishing American leadership for it, and cited the Pandemic as one of the US failures. He said he was convinced that the virus came from US lab biotechnology as opposed to evolving naturally, citing his experience with the authoritative British medical magazine.
Volodin said that the US government wouldn't comment on Sachs remarks because President Joe Biden is afraid that the world will know the truth about the true culprit of the epidemic. He said that the US was responsible for the suffering of millions of people who contracted the virus, including the many who passed away, and the economic crisis caused by the epidemic. He demanded that the US must compensate for the damage to all nations affected.
The Russian official said that the US should stop and declassify its military bioweapons research, referring to the chain of biolabs scattered across the world that receive funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The US says they are used to detect emerging pathogens but some countries, including Russia and China, believe they may be used for clandestine military research.
Sachs called his remark provocative and lamented that the theory is not being investigated, not in the United States, not anywhere, despite evidence that warrants such a probe. He said that they don't want to look under the rug too much.
The theory that Covid 19 started as a leak from a Chinese lab in Wuhan was popularized by the US government under President Donald Trump, who stated that Beijing should pay compensation for its supposed guilt. The idea was rejected by both the Chinese government and Trump's political opponents at home. The lab leak theory was dissented by major US tech companies on their online platforms.
Under President Joe Biden's administration, the censorship was reversed, as Beijing accused Beijing of failing to subject its microbiology research to international scrutiny. The outbreak was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has a top biosecurity lab that has extensive records of doing research funded by American grants.
The World Health Organization concluded last February that the most likely source of the Covid virus came from an animal host, and concluded that the virus was most likely to come from an animal host.