MOSCOW, 28 APR – RIA Novosti. Biologist, researcher, Moscow state University, specialist of bat Sergey Kruskop questioned the version that the new coronavirus came to humans from bats, in his opinion, they could not affect the spread of the virus in the world.
"the Relationship between current infection with the bats is almost guaranteed fake, and certainly not them it spreads", – said the expert RIA Novosti.
"it is Clear that the virus passes from person to person without intermediaries. The threat from bats is in the case when they form large concentrations. Fortunately or unfortunately, outside of mountain areas such accumulations mice is not seen. The large clusters of mice in the temperate latitudes, there may be several dozen, maybe a hundred and a half, but this is rare. I had never seen with my own eyes colonies numbering in the hundred," said Kruskop.
He noted that the virus is similar to COVID-19, noted from bats, but the identity of the virus has not been proven.
Previously Deputy Chairman of the Russian security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, told RIA Novosti that the first to set the origin of the coronavirus unlikely, viruses – the oldest agents on Earth. The Australian foreign Minister Maris Payne stated the need for a global investigation of the reasons for the outbreak of a pandemic coronavirus. The Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on homeland security and governmental Affairs, Ron Johnson reported that the Committee will begin a major investigation into the reasons for the emergence and spread of coronavirus as well as the role of China and who.
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