Scientists from Wahan and the United States have planned to create a new corona virus, which does not exist in nature, using a combination of genetic codes from other viruses, according to documents submitted to the US Advanced Defense Research Initiative (DARPA) leaked last month.
This was reported in the British Telegraph.
A genetics expert who works for the World Health Organization and unveiled the design, after examining the proposal in depth, said the current corona virus (Sars-CoV-2) was created this way - which explains why it has never been found in the wild.
So far, a virus called Banal-52, which was reported in Laos last month, shares 96.8% of the genome with this virus.
Corona virus under the microscope, Photo: IP
The U.S. Advanced Defense Research Initiative's proposal suggests that the team planned to take genetic sequences from existing, natural corona viruses and use them - in order to create a new sequence that would be average among all. "The significance of that average," "Is that the new virus sequence will not be a perfect match for any of the viruses."