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Scientists from the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic started, and the United States have planned to create completely new coronaviruses that do not exist in nature. They intended to combine the genetic code of different viruses, according to a proposal for funding from the United States Agency for Innovation in Defense (DARPA), which expired about a month ago. They mention that an international team of scientists plan to mix genetic information from related variants to create new viruses. This was reported by “Montreal Gazette”.
An expert on genetics at the World Health Organization, who discovered the plan after studying the proposal in detail, believes that explains why Sars-CoV-2 or COVID-19 cannot be found in nature.
So far, the closest to the coronavirus is a variant called Banal-52. It was discovered in Laos a month ago. But there is only a 96.8% match with its genome. According to scientists, the ancestor of the current virus should have about 99.98%. However, such has not been found so far.
According to the proposal to DARPA, which was released by Drastic, a pandemic analysis group, the scientists plan to take parts of natural coronaviruses and use them to make a brand new one that is average for others.
The World Health Organization source, who requested anonymity, explains that the team planned to “take different parts of compatible coronaviruses and create a new series that will be something in between … Then they will synthesize a living gene from the computer series.” , thus creating a viral genome that does not exist in nature, but looks natural since it is something in between natural viruses. “
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