There is a virology laboratory in Wuhan, China, but the new coronavirus could not be artificially bred there, said Mikhail Shchelkanov, head of the FEFU Microorganism Ecology Laboratory.
In 2018, Xinhua reported on research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the immune mechanisms of bats, which can carry viruses for a long time, but not get sick. Recently, Tan Wenjie, director of the Emergency Technical Center of the Institute of Viral Diseases of the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control, China, said that the new coronavirus is 90% similar to the coronavirus of a bat that lives in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province. A number of publications wrote that the new coronavirus was allegedly artificially bred at the same institute.
"There is an excellent virology laboratory there," said the source, when asked if there is an institute of virology in Wuhan.
“The Chinese were lucky that she was there. The pathogen was quickly identified. But the artificial origin of the new coronavirus is fake,”the scientist emphasized.
The World Health Organization has recognized the outbreak of the new coronavirus as an emergency of international importance. 259 people became victims of coronavirus in China, about 11.7 thousand people were infected, 243 were discharged. More than 100 people fell ill outside of China. The first two cases of coronavirus were detected in the Russian Federation, in the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Tyumen Region, both of whom are citizens of China.