Debate over Origin of Corona Virus

Subject: Science and technology

Section :Biotechnology

Concept:

The debate is over whether the coronavirus emerged naturally—possibly jumping from an animal host to humans in the same way as the SARS-1 virus in 2002 — or accidentally ‘escaped’ or ‘leaked’ from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the institute in the city where researchers had been working with coronaviruses for several years.
The fact that the first infections were reported from Wuhan, is the basis for the assertion that an engineered virus had spilled over from the laboratory.
Over the subsequent months, plenty of scientific facts were unearthed, which can be explained far better, and with much greater probability, by the ‘lableak’theory.
In March 2020, another set of scientists claimed that their analysis “clearly” showed that the virus was “not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus”.
While the evidence for a ‘lab leak’ is still not conclusive — and the recent disclosures by US agencies are unlikely to change that it does remain the far simpler explanation, not least because unlike in the case of SARS_1 or MERS,the theory of ‘natural emergence’ of the virus is yet to be established more than three years after the outbreak.
In fact, the evidence for natural emergence continues to be far more disingenuous.