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[ad_1] Scientists in China have discovered a new wild coronavirus with the same mutation as animals that are believed to have spread COVID-19, proving that Sars-CoV-2 was not created in a lab, Daily Mail reported. The new bat coronavirus possesses a furin cleavage site — a crucial element in COVID-19's effectiveness — which has been a topic of debate, with some experts claiming it could only have been acquired through lab experiments. The newly discovered TyRo-CoV-162275 virus, which is up to 98% identical to coronaviruses found in pangolins, — the animal long suspected of passing COVID-19 to humans — has been criticised for supporting the “lab leak theory” The theory suggests that COVID-19-like viruses emerge in the wild and pass between species, despite studies showing that wild coronaviruses can acquire the structure naturally. Dr Kristian Andersen, a top Danish infectious disease expert, shared the new study on X, formerly known as Twitter, where he wrote: “The scie...

[ad_1] NEW YORK: A team of Chinese researchers identified and mapped SARS-CoV-2 , the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic, at least two weeks before the country officially informed the world about the virus, according to media reports. The reports, based on documents from the US department of health and human services (HHS) and shared with a US congressional committee, raise concerns about China transparency on the virus. The congressional investigators said Chinese researcher Lili Ren uploaded an incomplete sequence of the virus's structure to a US government-run database GenBank on Dec 29, 2019, Wall Street Journal reported.Three days later GenBank informed Ren her submission was incomplete and requested that she provide the complete information, Washington Post reported. As Ren did not submit the requested annotations, her submission was deleted from GenBank's processing queue on Jan 16, 2020. A "nearly identical" genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was submi...