Director of the National Institute of allergic and infectious diseases of the United States Anthony Fauci said at the briefing in the White house a coronavirus that has a natural origin.
Recently, was a study in which a group of highly qualified specialists in the evolution of the viruses studied the genetic sequence of this virus and a genetic sequence that infect bats, and considered their evolution. Mutations that were required in order to obtain a virus which we have now fully comply with transfer from animal to human, — cited the words of Anthony Fauci at the TASS.
Earlier, on 16 April 2020 the representative of the Chinese foreign Ministry Zhao Lijiang criticized the plot of the American TV channel Fox News, which indicates the artificial origin of the virus in the laboratory of the Institute of Virology in Wuhan. The official representative of Department noted that the facts presented in the material do not have the evidence, and an unnamed source channel can not be proof of the artificial origin of the virus.
Earlier NEWS.ru wrote that the Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff U.S. army General mark Millie called version of the artificial origin, coronavirus unconvincing. He said that the Pentagon is inclined to the version about the natural origins of the virus.