A scary news report has suggested that the deadly coronavirus may have originated in a bio-warfare laboratory in China’s Wuhan city, from where it went viral—to the world’s alarm. The new virus, christened 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO), causes a severe respiratory infection that could potentially be fatal. According to Chinese sources, it broke out of an unhygienic seafood market in Wuhan that was selling all manner of meats. But a Washington Times report cites an Israeli microbiologist as saying that this strain of the virus is likely linked to a lab associated with China’s biological warfare programme. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is the country’s only declared site that has the capacity to work with deadly strains of viruses, the report says.
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