Chinese virologist who fled to the US after claiming Covid-19 was made in a military lab releases ‘evidence’ to back up her theory — but fellow scientists call her report ‘unsubstantiated’

A Chinese virologist who alleges the coronavirus was cooked up in a military lab has published a report which she claims backs up her theory.

Li-Meng Yan, who alleges to be a former researcher at the Hong Kong School of Public Health, says the virus was built by merging the genetic material of two bat coronaviruses.

She claims its spike protein – a structure on the surface of the virus which it uses to bind with cells – was edited to make it easier for the virus to latch on to human cells.

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