Onishchenko assessed the likelihood of the artificial origin of the coronavirus

According to him, in 2013, scientists from the United States and China reproduced the coronavirus without changing its properties.

“The coronavirus has overcome the interspecies barrier, from small mammals, Hymenoptera, it has passed to humans.

But they didn't help him in this, he did it on his own.

But we could have helped, ”he said on the air of NSN.

Earlier, the Russian Security Council said that the COVID-19 pandemic indicates the possibility of biological security threats associated with other dangerous pathogenic biological agents.