A minister of work is confronted with increasing questions about claims that he played information in which the Covid -Pandemie was warned, started from a Chinese Lablek.
Lord Patrick Vallance, the most important scientific adviser of the government during the crisis, is accused of the waste claims in a file that warned that the virus was designed in a Wuhan facility.
Revelations about the classified report, submitted to No. 10 in March 2020, led to growing calls for more transparency in the science community of the United Kingdom.
It also turned out that Lord Vallance continued to play down the theory long after the pandemic. Transcripts show that in 2023 he told the MPs about the Science Committee. The 'is very, very, very unlikely' that the virus came out of a lab.
It has also emerged that he collaborated on a paper that suppressed the debate in the origin of Covid in the early days of the pandemic – even though he was aware that the Lableket theory was possible.
Luke de Pulford, co-founder of the Interparliamentary Alliance in China, said: “Vallance has serious questions to answer … We do not expect our scientific advisers to play at geopolitics, and certainly not when the culpability of Beijing for a virus that has killed millions, is being taken into the mate.”
The post on Sunday unveiled the report, by former Mi6 boss Sir Richard Dearlove, said: “It is now without reasonable doubt that COVID-19 was designed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” The file argued that China pushed a false story that the virus was created in an animal market.
Sir Richard told De Mos that it seems that the “scientific branches in the US and the UK are connected to prevent discussion about the origin of the COVID Pandemie.”
Lord Patrick Vallance, the most important scientific adviser of the government during the crisis, is accused of the waste claims in a file that warned that the virus was designed in a Wuhan facility
This file made on February 23, 2017, the Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli shows in the P4 Laboratory in Wuhan
Employees of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drive their vehicle while leaving the closed Huanan Seafruit Grand Trade Market in the city of Wuhan in January 2020
A source close to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson pointed his finger on Lord Vallance for the waste of the Lablekker theory and said: 'Boris repeatedly asked the [intelligence] Agencies to do more work on the origin of Covid … He was hit by the refusal of scientists, especially Patrick Vallance, even to consider this possibility. '
The theory would have been rejected by the science community, perhaps for fear of insulting Beijing and to jeopardize research financing.
In January, the American Central Intelligence Agency confirmed that it believes that Covid has been leaked 'more likely' from a Chinese lab than to have come from animals.
And earlier this week, the Federal Intelligence Service of Berlin said since 2020 that it has probably considered the theory as 80 to 95 percent.
MP Iin Duncan Smith said last night: “Every bit of evidence points to the laboratories … China has silenced all this and too many scientists like to agree.”
Called for an independent investigation, Sir Iain added: “Everyone who denied that this should answer these questions.”
MP Esther McVey called for a register of interests for scientists and said, “We must know who received financing from where and who and what their political faithfulness is.”
MP Steve Baker added: “Science must be powered by evidence, no desire to ignore uncomfortable hypotheses.”
A source close to the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson pointed his finger on Lord Vallance for the waste of the LaBleket theory
Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and then head -scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance during a press conference in March 2020
Lord Vallance, the scientific minister of science who at the time was the scientific adviser of the government, is accused of ignoring the report, possibly for fear of insulting the Chinese or to jeopardize research financing
Lord Vallance claims that he 'had no view' of the file, but the British national security adviser warned about the Lablekker theory when it was first brought to his attention in January 2020.
In the month, Sir Richard submitted his report, Lord Vallance would have collaborated on a paper who supported the story of Beijing about a natural event.
The newspaper, the proximal origin of SARS-COV-2, published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, was helpful in pushing to a theory that the virus of a natural origin was.
But e-mails from the beginning of 2020 show that the authors have held long discussions with experts, including Lord Vallance, in which they were warned that China had researched Bat-Coronaviruses at worrying levels of bio-safety.
When the newspaper was published, the authors rejected the Lablekker theory when Covid-19 contained 'O-Glycans' who helped the immune system that this was possible, even if the virus had evolved into a laboratory and discussed this in e-mails.
Lord Vallance pushed this story years later in May 2023, while proving to science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which said: “The most likely, from all the evidence I have seen, is that this is a zoosotic disease that spread from bats.”
A government spokesperson said: “Patrick Vallance did not have this file visible, and this theory would have been a matter for the security services, not him.”
