BEIJING: Twenty-two scientists from universities and research institutions published a commentary supporting the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 in the journal Science China Life Sciences, citing evidence from evolution theory and lack of proof of artificial tempering in the virus’s genome.The article came after 24 scientists from around the world published an open letter in the medical journal The Lancet this month, stating that the virus most likely originated in nature and not in a lab.
Wu Chung-I, the corresponding author of the article and a biology professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, said SARS-CoV-2 was extremely well adapted to the human population compared to SARS-CoV in 2003.
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