Microbiologist claims he knows the origin of coronavirus
A Russian microbiologist claims he knows the origin of coronavirus, saying it was accidentally engineered by Chinese scientists who did “absolutely crazy things” while developing a vaccine for HIV.
According to a New Daily report, Professor Petr Chumakov said the COVID-19 epicentre has been developing various coronavirus variants over the past decade – but not intentionally.
“They did this, supposedly not with the aim of creating pathogenic variants, but to study their pathogenicity,” he said.
But in doing so, they involuntarily created “variants of the virus” when they may have been aiming for a HIV vaccine, although they had no “malicious intent” on creating COVID-19, Professor Chumakov told Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
"It’s too early to blame anyone”, he said, "[but] the picture of the possible creation of the current coronavirus is slowly emerging”.
The professor wonders why people are only now starting to catch on to such controversial research, considering much of it has been published in the scientific press.
“All this has been analysed,” he said.
“It is interesting that the Chinese and Americans who worked with them published all their works in the open press.
“I even wonder why this background comes to people very slowly.
“I think that an investigation will nevertheless be initiated, as a result of which new rules will be developed that regulate the work with the genomes of such dangerous viruses.”
A spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin ahs denied the speculation around the man-made nature of the coronavirus.
“In the situation where there is not enough information that has been supported and checked by science … we think it is unacceptable, impossible, to groundlessly accuse anyone,” said Dmitry Peskov.
However, the head of Russia’s Federal Medical-Biological Agency Veronika Skvortsova she said the suggestion “demands a very thorough study”.
“None of the versions can be ruled out … I think that we must conduct a very serious research,” she said.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said an independent investigation must be launched to understand the pandemic’s true origins.
“Our purpose here is just pretty simple — we’d like the world to be safer when it comes to viruses,” he said.
“I would hope that any other nation … be it China or anyone else, would share that objective.
“Any member of the World Health Organisation, I think that should be something that should be understood and that’s part, I think, of your responsibility – or should be anyway – in participating in such an organisation,” he said.
Interesting and certainly adds weight to a proper investigation. We shouldn't jump to a conclusion from this however until the investigation is carried out and results published.
There is to much anti-Chinese sentiment around being promoted by people with a axe to grind and making utterances that have racial undertones. Some are even M.P.s here in australia.