COVID-19 has no 'credible natural ancestor’, was created in Wuhan lab, claims new study

The paper quotes that researchers found 'unique fingerprints' in COVID-19 samples that they say could only have arisen from manipulation in a laboratory.

London: Amid demands for a fresh probe into the origins of COVID-19, a new study has found that Chinese scientists created the virus in a lab in Wuhan, then tried to cover their tracks by reverse-engineering versions of the virus to make it look like it evolved naturally from bats. The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus has no ‘credible natural ancestor’ and was created by Chinese scientists who were working on a ‘Gain of Function’ project in a Wuhan lab, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday, citing a new research paper by British professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr Birger Sorensen. The new research claims that scientists took a natural coronavirus ‘backbone’ found in Chinese cave bats and spliced onto it a new ‘spike’, turning it into the deadly and highly transmissible COVID-19.