[Asia Economy Reporter Jo Yoo-jin] Dr. Yan Limeng, a public health scholar at the University of Hong Kong originally from China, has released an additional paper supporting the claim that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was artificially created in a research institute in Wuhan, China.
Dr. Yan Limeng's research team published a paper titled "Characteristics and Manipulation Methods of Coronavirus Suggesting It Was Engineered More Precisely Than Natural Evolution" on the open information platform 'Zenodo,' according to major foreign media reports on the 16th.
In the paper, she stated, "The biological characteristics of the coronavirus do not align with explanations of natural occurrence or zoonosis," and argued that "the evidence presented in the paper shows that the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was created in a laboratory using bat viruses ('ZC45' or 'ZXC21') as a framework or basis."
She claimed, based on genetic analysis results, that the coronavirus exhibits biological characteristics inconsistent with naturally occurring viruses.
Furthermore, she said, "There are widespread questions about whether natural bat viruses exist and the results of comparing their nucleotide sequences with those of the coronavirus," and asserted that "claims that the coronavirus or bat viruses did not occur naturally are being censored in academic journals."
The research team also cited the difference in the 'furin cleavage site' within the spike protein of the coronavirus compared to coronaviruses found in nature as evidence.
Based on this, they argued that the spike protein is the 'smoking gun' proving the artificial creation theory of the coronavirus. They also presented a detailed estimation of the coronavirus creation process, emphasizing that "it could be fully completed in about six months."
The paper stressed that there is a clear possibility that the coronavirus was created at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and called for an independent and thorough investigation.
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