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Vector Chief Says Novel Coronavirus Undoubtedly of Natural Origin

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Chief of Russia's Vector Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology, Rinat Maksyutov, has dismissed the idea that the virus causing... 19.12.2020, Sputnik International

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Vector Chief Says Novel Coronavirus Undoubtedly of Natural Origin

10:17 GMT 19.12.2020 (Updated: 10:45 GMT 19.12.2020)

© National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIHColourized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (greenish-brown) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (pink), also known as novel coronavirus, isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and colour-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Colourized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (greenish-brown) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (pink), also known as novel coronavirus, isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and colour-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. - Sputnik International

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Chief of Russia's Vector Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology, Rinat Maksyutov, has dismissed the idea that the virus causing COVID-19 may have been artificially concocted, saying it is indeed of natural origin.

"I believe that the novel coronavirus is not a technical invention by man. Analysis of all the genomes shows that it is a product, the result of classical viral evolution in nature", Maksyutov said in a televised appearance on the state broadcaster Rossiya-1.

© Sputnik / Kirill Braga / Go to the mediabankThe view shows an ampoule "component 1" of the two-component vector vaccine the Sputnik-V against coronavirus infectionin the city polyclinic No. 4 in Volgograd, Russia

Vector Chief Says Novel Coronavirus Undoubtedly of Natural Origin - Sputnik International

The view shows an ampoule "component 1" of the two-component vector vaccine the Sputnik-V against coronavirus infectionin the city polyclinic No. 4 in Volgograd, Russia

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He went on to say there are many coronaviruses similar to SARS-Cov 2 that circulate in nature but do not infect humans, which further cements the conclusion that the virus evolved naturally.

Conspiracy theories about the origin of the coronavirus behind the pandemic have been around ever since the first outbreak in Wuhan, China, late last year. These theories have largely been dismissed by the scientific community.