Scientists find new bat coronavirus that proves COVID-19 wasn’t created in labs

Scientists in China have discovered a new wild coronavirus with the same mutation as the animals believed to have spread COVID-19, proving that Sars-CoV-2 was not created in a lab. Daily Mail mentionted.

The new bat coronavirus possesses a furin cleavage site – a critical element for the effectiveness of COVID-19 – which has been the subject of debate, with some experts arguing that it could only have been acquired through laboratory experiments.

The newly discovered TyRo-CoV-162275 virus, which is up to 98% identical to the coronaviruses found in pangolins – the animal long suspected of transmitting COVID-19 to humans – has been criticized for supporting “laboratory leak theory”.

The theory suggests that viruses similar to COVID-19 occur in nature and are passed between species, despite studies showing that wild coronaviruses can acquire the structure naturally.

Dr. Kristian Andersen, a leading Danish infectious disease expert, shared the new study on X, formerly known as Twitter, where he wrote: “The science on this will get stronger with time.”

Dr. Andersen, despite admitting the high possibility of a lab leak, publicly condemned the theory and was called before Congress in July, Daily Mail mentionted.

There are two camps on the origin and spread of COVID-19: some scientists, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Energy believe it escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

Meanwhile, others, including former White House physician Anthony Fauci, believe it originated in bats, passed to pangolins and then to humans.

A study conducted between 2016 and 2017 in China found that nine bat species carried 58 bat coronaviruses.

The researchers collected samples from 20 species of bats in Yunnan and Guangdong provinces, 994 and 620 miles away from the epicenter of the Wuhan COVID-19 pandemic.

They found two of the viruses, TyRo-CoV-162275 and TyRo-CoV-162269, in a larger bamboo bat.

The first relates to bat MERS-like coronaviruses circulating in pangolins, the rare animal believed to be the intermediary in the transmission of COVID-19 from bats to humans.

The second was closely related to another type of bat coronavirus.

Scientists are demanding transparency from China about the mysterious disease that shares similarities with the early outbreak of COVID-19, as published in the journal Virologica Sinica, run by Shi Zhengli, also known as “Bat Lady” or “Bat Woman ».

Scientists are demanding answers as many conspiracy theories have already been created around the spread of COVID-19.