Boris Johnson says COVID-19 came from a ‘botched experiment in a Chinese lab’

The revelation comes from a sneak Insight into his memoirs Unleashed which was released in the UK outlet this weekend Daily Mail. The book will arrive on shelves October 10th.

“The terrible thing about the whole Covid disaster is that in all its aspects it appears to be entirely man-made,” Johnson said.

Johnson, a controversial figure in the Conservative Party, was prime minister from July 2019 to September 2022 at the height of the pandemic and introduced various emergency government powers and a nationwide COVID-19 vaccination program.

Whether SARS-CoV-2 spread to humans through animal transmission at the Huanan Seafood Market or as a result of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, both in one of China’s most populous cities, has been the subject of heated scientific dispute and political debate since 2020.

Recently, a group of scientists who have long supported the animal origin theory published an article that further reinforces the fish market as a starting point for infections

However, a significant number of virologists and other life science experts worldwide believe it is at least plausible that the virus could have been created in the laboratory.

Johnson is one of the most prominent political leaders to openly promote the theory that the virus came from a laboratory incident. In his book, he says the virus is “the result of a botched experiment in a Chinese laboratory.”

“Some scientists clearly put pieces of virus together, like the witches in Macbeth – the eye of a bat and the toes of a frog – and oops, the playful little critter jumped out of the test tube and started multiplying around the world,” Johnson said in his report memoirs.

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According to the World Health Organization, more than 7 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide, including at least 3 million within the first year.

According to the UK Office for National Statistics, there were almost 74,000 COVID-19 deaths in England and Wales in 2020.