A 2015 reportage video published by Tgr Leonardo has panicked most Italians. There is talk of Chinese experiments on bats, but it is also specified that transmission to humans would have been impossible. Opposition requests for clarification were immediately addressed to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio.
"Minister Di Maio should immediately clarify the origin of Covid-19 with the Chinese authorities. In this regard, review the episode of TgR Leonardo of 16 November 2015 on Rai 3. He will be able to find out himself the news that a group of Chinese researchers had created a super lung virus in the laboratory from bats and mice ". This was stated by the group leader of the League in the Foreign Affairs Committee, Eugenio Zoffili. "We have presented an urgent questioning on this matter. The same report also stressed the strong concerns of this experiment by the international scientific community. Despite the Chinese reassurances, the risk that he could infect the man was already evident. Di Maio immediately activate all the necessary investigations. The truth - concludes Zoffili - must come to the surface".
The Brothers of Italy intervenes in this regard: “Fratelli d'Italia asks the government to urgently ascertain the information that comes from a RAI scientific service which states the creation in the laboratory by Chinese scientists of a super lung virus from bats and mice". This was stated by Walter Rizzetto, member of the Fratelli d'Italia, announcing an urgent question. "The authenticity of the Rai service has been ascertained and it is learned from it - he explains - that Chinese scientists have grafted a protein taken from bats on the Sars virus, obtained from mice, obtaining a super virus that causes a serious form of pneumonia. It is clear that today that Covid-19 has spread from China to the world, and that it has the same characteristics as the super virus described in the 2015 scientific service, there are strong doubts that it is the same molecule created in the laboratory and that it is causing thousands of deaths especially in Italy".
The denial of scholars
Similar, but not the same. A first denial came from the professor Henry Bucci, professor at Templey University (USA), world-renowned epidemiologist in an interview with RaiNews24: "Covid-19 is not the same virus created in the laboratory by the Chinese in 2015". A categorical denial.
"The virus created in 2015- says Professor Bucci- he had no epidemic ability. Furthermore, there is no doubt that Covid-19 was not created in the laboratory but is the result of natural selection". The 2015 movie concerns an episode of the Tg Leonardo and is filming on the network and on social networks generating - says a Rai note - false information and alarm. But the virologist also denied the hypothesis Robert Burioni, who writes on Twitter: "The latest nonsense is the derivation of coronavirus from a laboratory experiment. Don't worry, it's 100% natural, unfortunately".
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