According to the minister, there are many opinions, and today “after all, the majority says that it is a natural virus,” he adapted to the conditions of direct interaction with a person.
“And I don’t see today a reason to doubt it,” RIA Novosti quoted Murashko as saying.
On February 20, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang responded to media reports about the alleged “leak” of the coronavirus.
He called on the international community to combat conspiracy theories around the disease.
According to Chinese scientists from the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control, wild animals have become a likely source of coronavirus.
For example, an employee of the center, Tang Wenjie, noted that 2019-nCoV is 90% similar to the coronavirus from a bat organism that lives in Zhoushan city, Zhejiang province.