DISINFO: The West must compensate Russia for the Covid-19 pandemic damage
SUMMARY
The West must compensate Russia for the damage from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The government and parliament of the Russian Federation should study the issue of compensation from Western countries for the damage that Russia suffered because of the pandemic. Let them stop their research, which may have resulted in this virus. And they have to think about how to compensate for the costs to all countries that have suffered from this. After all, we did not get this infection from China for the first time, but it came from where - from Europe, from Italy, Germany, France. Here's how to risk Russia - they are great. And what about to compensate all the costs in connection with what they have done, they let this virus to walk around and ruin lives, but here they are silent. The most real killers.
RESPONSE
Unfounded claim, accusing the West of creating and spreading the coronavirus. Conspiracy theory about the 2019 novel coronavirus, based on recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about biological weapons.
This is part of a disinformation campaign on coronavirus, well documented by both media and governments. Elements of this campaign were widely reported by Russian and international publications, and by the European External Action Service.
There is no evidence to support the claim that the new coronavirus causing the Covid-19 has human sources or it is a biological weapon. The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) comes from a family of viruses that includes other viruses such as SARS and MERS. It was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central China and has been rapidly spreading, with new cases being reported in more than 200 countries of the world.
The claim that the coronavirus disease is manmade has been repeatedly debunked by numerous fact-checkers and medical experts, meaning there is no possibility that the disease originates from a biological laboratory. The overwhelming consensus among experts is that the SARS-CoV-2 virus has natural origins.
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