Brazil’s President Suggests CCP Virus Created to Wage ‘Biological Warfare’

President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro gives a speech during the opening of Brazil Communications week at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 5, 2021. Andressa Anholete/Getty Images

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro floated the idea that the CCP virus may have been a lab product created to carry out “biological warfare.”

“It’s a new virus. Nobody knows whether it was born in a laboratory or because a human ate some animal they shouldn’t have,” he said in a speech on May 5.