BRITAIN’S Communist Party warned today that US Establishment circles pushing the idea that Covid-19 originated at a Chinese laboratory were engaged in an anti-China propaganda campaign.

US President Joe Biden this week received a classified report he had ordered spooks to compile on the theory, deemed “extremely unlikely” by the World Health Organisation in its investigation earlier this year.

“Leading experts in virology is Britain have expressed extreme scepticism about US claims, citing the extensive genetic evidence that currently exists and which points to the origin of the virus in nature.

“They include the professor of virology at Glasgow University, David Roberts, his counterpart at Cambridge University, Professor James Wood and Sir James Farrar of the Wellcome Institute.  

“In the Lancet of 5 July 2021 a large number of academic researchers in virology jointly condemned the attempt to politicise the issue,” a statement issued by the party’s general secretary Robert Griffiths and international secretary John Foster noted.

“It is important for all who value peace to be alert to this new propaganda campaign,” they warned, noting that Britain was already expanding its nuclear arsenal and engaging in provocative military manoeuvres “in the immediate vicinity of China.”