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The second involved Yanqing Ye, a lieutenant in the Chinese army accused of stealing U. And third was Zaosong Zheng, who stole 21 vials of biological research. While these three arrests all involve people lying about their ties to China, they took place at different universities and are not related. Quoting the New York Times, moreover, Snopes reveals that the contents of these vials had nothing to do with the coronavirus, but were in fact cancer cells.

Prompted by false rumours such as those circulating about Lieber, experts have been swift to emphatically reject the notion that the coronavirus could be man-made. Fall in phone users fuels China coronavirus death-toll doubts. Is 5G expansion worsening the Covid crisis? You can keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the Covid pandemic by following our daily live blog. A WUHAN lab-created coronavirus strains that were up to 10,times stronger than usual — amid fears a virus could have escaped when a technician was bitten by a mouse.

Bombshell documents have emerged which reveal how Chinese research funded by a US government agency involved souping up the virus and then transmitting it to "humanised mice". The research was carried out in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and studied coronavirus found in bats that had been captured in a former copper mine in Mojiang, some 1, miles away from the lab.

Richard Ebright, biosafety expert, and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University told The Sun Online the papers show this involved dangerous experiments that may lead to one of the bugs escaping the lab. The research appears to involve making bat coronaviruses more virulent — potentially having viral loads up to 10, times higher than normal. Mice, which had been "humanised" by splicing them with human tissue, were then infected with the altered virus.

But worryingly, some of the coronaviruses were manipulated to make them extremely hazardous, Dr Ebright warned. He said: "The documents further reveal that at least three of the laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses exhibited much higher — 10 times to 10, times higher — viral load in humanised mice than the starting bat virus from which they were constructed.

The viral load means the souped-up bug may cause a more dangerous infection because of the high amount of virus particles entering the victim's blood or plasma. Professor Wang Yanyi, the director, has previously denied all allegations of a leak from the Wuhan lab and claimed her facility is " per cent" safe - and China has aggressively pushed back against Western allegations. Clearly, a lab leak is the by far most likely explanation for the current pandemic which is further supported by these new documents.

It comes as it emerged twenty-six of the twenty-seven scientists who publicly trashed the Covid lab leak theory reportedly have links to Wuhan researchers. According to Esvelt, certain techniques that the researchers used seemed to meet the definition of gain-of-function research. But he told PolitiFact that "the work reported in this specific paper definitely did NOT lead to the creation of SARS-CoV-2" because the genetic sequences of the virus studied in the paper differ from that of the new coronavirus.

If the virus had been altered in a lab, its genomic data would show signs of tampering. On Feb. A detailed computational analysis of the coronavirus conducted by five researchers in March found that its genetic makeup showed no signs of alteration.

The ability of the virus to bind to human cells is most likely the result of natural selection in an animal host or in humans after the virus jumped from animals.

Fact-check: Are states actually seeing revenue increases amid pandemic year? Both the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance have denied that a grant to the Wuhan lab funded gain-of-function research, though a scientist told us that one paper published with assistance from the grant seems to describe techniques similar to gain-of-function.

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