Health Canada Says COVID-19 Origins May Be Linked to ‘Laboratory Incident’

Health Canada Says COVID-19 Origins May Be Linked to ‘Laboratory Incident’
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What was once portrayed as a “conspiracy theory” in the media is now being acknowledged as a possibility by Health Canada: the virus causing COVID-19 could have been the result of a lab accident.

In a June briefing prepared for then-health minister Jean-Yves Duclos, and first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter, Health Canada cited several U.S. media and government reports that expressed varying degrees of confidence in the theory that the pandemic began as a laboratory-related incident.