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6 Oct, 8 tweets, 2 min read
🔴Scientists from Wuhan and the US were planning to create new coronaviruses that did not exist in nature, it has emerged.

Proposals show they planned to combine the genetic codes of other viruses

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❌Leaked documents of a grant application submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) reveal that the international team of scientists planned to mix genetic data of closely related strains and grow completely new viruses
A genetics expert working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that if Sars-CoV-2 had been produced in this way, it would explain why a close match has never been found in nature
🦠So far the closest naturally occurring virus to Sars-CoV-2 is a strain called Banal-52, which was reported from Laos last month
The Darpa proposals show the team had planned to take sequences from naturally occurring coronaviruses and use them to create a brand new sequence
The grant application, submitted in 2018, states: "We will compile sequence/RNAseq data from a panel of closely related strains and compare full length genomes"
❌Although the grant proposal was rejected in 2018, the Wuhan database of viral strains was taken offline prior to the Covid outbreak some 18 months later.

➡️This means it is impossible to check which viruses the team was working on or had created
🔎Read more on the proposals to mix genetic data of related coronavirus strains and grow completely new sequences here 👇

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