Russian scientist: the coronavirus was not created artificially



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The new coronavirus was not created artificially, but is the result of “classical viral evolution in nature,” said Rinat Maksyutov, director general of Russia’s Vector State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology, quoted by TASS.

“I believe that the new coronavirus is not a technical invention of man and analyzes of all genomes show that it is the product of a classical viral evolution in nature,” Maksyutov said in an interview with the Russian television documentary Dangerous Virus. channel “Russia-1”.

Maksyutov explained that the newly discovered coronaviruses, which circulate in nature but are not contagious to humans, differ from the new coronavirus by no more than one percent, writes BTA.

Alexander Ginzburg, director of the Gamalea Research Institute, which created Russia’s first CPVOD-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, also believes that the new coronavirus was not artificially created.



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