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Updated: May 12 2021, 7:47 ET COVID is a perfect weapon and shows how biowarfare could quickly bring the world to its knees , according to a former military chemical weapons expert. Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon spoke out after it was revealed Chinese scientists had probed weaponising coronaviruses five years before the start of the pandemic.
9 9 Chinese scientists reportedly considered weaponising coronaviruses back in 2015Credit: EPA The colonel does not believe Covid is man-made weapon - but it demonstrates the threat of what could happen if a biological agent was released by an enemy state or terrorist group. He exclusively told The Sun Online: I was not at all surprised by the report about China. ....
The Remaking Of India A Covid-19 test. (representative image) Snapshot There is much to learn from the Indian experience with the virus. Any government must have a body that is paranoid and focuses on what could go wrong. There needs to be a healthy and constructive balance between the optimists and the prudent ones inside the government. I just happened to come across the article in Financial Times (FT) by Ramachandra Guha (âThe unmaking of Indiaâ, 30 April 2021). The comments in the article by Guha reflect the widespread anger and resentment at the deaths and the personal sufferings that many have experienced directly or indirectly. ....
“We must reassess how we look at the world’s laboratories.” He said there were 57 Level 4 laboratories capable of producing deadly pathogens such as Anthrax, which has a 95 per ent mortality rate if a victim is left untreated for 48 hours, and bubonic plague. These include the Government’s Defence s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down. But, he warned, there are also 3,200 Level 3 laboratories, “many of which are scattered at various universities and which may contain the flu virus.” De Bretton- Gordon, formally the colonel in charge of the UK’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Regiment added: “It’s very possible that an accident at a laboratory at Wuhan led to the initial transmission of Covid-19, and we’ve seen a proliferation of level 3 and 4 high containment laboratories. ....