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Some of the work was done at minimal levels of biosafety. Report by Jonathan Matthews and Claire Robinson<\/em><\/p>\n

Evidence has emerged that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, working in collaboration with scientists in the USA, have been genetically engineering bat viruses for the past several years to investigate infectivity \u2013 using undetectable methods. The WIV is just a few miles from the Chinese city where the COVID-19 pandemic is thought to have originated and is the chief suspect in the possible scenario that the virus emerged from a lab.<\/p>\n

The evidence rebuts claims by journalists and some scientists that the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the current COVID-19 pandemic could not have been genetically engineered because it lacks the \u201csigns\u201d or \u201csignatures\u201d that supposedly would be left behind by genetic engineering techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evidence has emerged that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, working in collaboration with scientists in the USA, have been genetically engineering bat viruses for the past several years to investigate infectivity \u2013 using undetectable methods. 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