Unfortunately, the story from the Telegraph is behind a paywall, but there is a report of it from Modernity News, detailing that there has been a 50 percent increase in leaks and accidents in UK bio-labs since the age of Covid in 2020. These labs, as with all such labs across the West, are jam-packed with dangerous pathogens such as anthrax, rabies and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), to name but a few that we know of, and the labs are really close to major population centres. Who actually thought of putting these labs where they are?
Since January 2020, there have been 156 reports of lab leaks or accidents, around 42 per year in the UK, and that is a rise of 50 per cent relative to the years from January 2010 and December 2019. In that time 286 incidents were recorded in total, approximately 28 per year. Among the accidents was a lab worker getting pricked with a syringe with a virus similar to smallpox. Another lab worker lost a genetically modified mouse. It just disappeared and was not found. It would have been too bad if the mouse had been jabbed with the near-smallpox syringe.