Corona-like virus was found 6 years ago , Wuhan's lab didn't take it seriously

Whether or not the coronavirus was artificially created in his lab is still a source of speculation for US President Donald Trump. However, the theory is that the coronavirus was transmitted from a bat to a human, and that the virus spread from him to the rest of the world.

Although it has not been proven. However, the possibility of scattering from bats is further strengthened by the recent release of an information.

Seven years ago, a sample of a corona-like virus was sent to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology from China's Yunnan Province. But then the matter was not taken seriously.

After the report was published in the British daily 'Sunday Times', a new fight has started among the scientists and researchers. What happened seven years ago?

The report said that in 2013, the number of bats in an abandoned mine in Yunnan Province increased dramatically.

A few workers cleaned the bat droppings from that mine. Six of them contracted acute pneumonia and three died.

The Sunday Times reported, citing the doctor in charge of treating the affected miners at the time, that one of the reasons for the infection and death was that a virus called corona had entered the workers' bodies.

At that time, a 'frozen' sample of the virus was sent to Wuhan's lab. But research on the virus has not progressed much since then.

Xi Zhengli, a Chinese SARS virus expert, later explored the mine. Xi Zhengli is known as the ‘Bat Woman’ for his research on the virus that spreads from bats and in areas inhabited by bats.



At a time when coronavirus infections were drastic in Wuhan this year, Xi Zhengli said the current coronavirus has a 96.2 percent resemblance to the RaTg 13 virus.

The Sunday Times claimed in the report that it was almost certain that the virus found in abandoned mines in Yunnan was RaTG 13.

But sadly, the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology said last May that there were no more live "copies" of the RaTG-13 virus in the lab. Therefore, it is difficult to say whether the coronavirus that is currently spreading in the form of parasites has any resemblance to the RaTG13 13 virus.

On the other hand, he claimed that they did not have any evidence that the current coronavirus had spread from Wuhan. Although US President Donald Trump has said more than once, it will be investigated whether the virus was artificially created in this lab.