Go to the media bankResearch laboratory employee. File photoBERLIN, Oct 23A group of three German scientists claim to have found evidence of laboratory origin of the coronavirus, the German television channel n-tv reported.According to the analysis, it is 99.9 percent artificial copy of a natural virus , said one of the authors of the study, Valentin Bruttel.
"Combined with other molecular evidence, our results show that this virus is 99.9 percent artificial, probably a manipulated copy of a natural virus" evidence of laboratory origin of the virus. They published the findings as a preprint that has not yet gone through the peer review process. In their article, they argue that SARS-CoV-2 is a deliberately genetically modified virus.The Ministry of Health has registered another drug for the treatment of COVID-19As the scientist explained, the methods that were allegedly used to create SARS-CoV-2 are also used in a very similar way by individual laboratories for the production of synthetic viruses. Bruttel says he also uses these methods in his daily work, but to develop «completely harmless» protein-based drugs for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. According to scientists, they found a kind of «fingerprint» in the genome of SARS-CoV-2. This is a regularly repeated pattern in the virus genome, Bruttel explained. Labs that genetically modify RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 first assemble genetic material from individual DNA building blocks, he said. Characteristic patterns remain near the junctions of these «building blocks». Bruttel and his colleagues compared the genomes of known artificially created and natural viruses. As the scientist explained, in natural places of recognition are distributed quite randomly, and in artificially created ones they always appear in a certain pattern. 
There is no evidence of the artificial origin of coronavirus, the expert said»This pattern is also found in SARS-CoV-2, but not in closely related viruses,» — the scientist explained. He clarified that, according to preliminary results, the probability that natural evolution accidentally created this pattern is no more than one in a hundred, and possibly much less. Earlier, the commission on the coronavirus of the British medical journal Lancet published a report based on two years of work, in which she stated that she did not exclude its laboratory origin. In connection with the publication of the study, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it continues to search for the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. % of Americans are confident in the laboratory origin of COVID-19