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No, coronavirus is not biological warfare, say genome boffins

19 March 2020 - 08:00 By Dave Chambers
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Covid-19 may have evolved into its current pathogenic state in a bat before being passed into humans through an intermediary, immunologists speculate after examining the virus's genome.
Covid-19 may have evolved into its current pathogenic state in a bat before being passed into humans through an intermediary, immunologists speculate after examining the virus's genome.
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Evolution, not engineering, is to blame for Covid-19.

An analysis of the virus genome found no evidence that it was made in a lab, say scientists.

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