The scientist described the version of the appearance of COVID after hundreds of mutations in the body of a miner

The SARS-CoV-2 CORONAVIRUS could have evolved in the body of a Chinese miner who contracted a previously unknown virus in 2012. This was stated by virologist Jonathan Latham, executive DIRECTOR of the Bioscience Resource Project, reports The Telegraph.

The version that SARS-CoV-2 arose almost ten years ago, Latham put forward in August last year. Then the virologist, along with biologist Allison Wilson, discovered the dissertation of a DOCTOR who treated miners from the Chinese province of Yunnan. The miners were cleaning the mine from the waste products of bats, after which six people developed symptoms characteristic of covid-19 . They required mechanical ventilation, three died. The miners' tests were sent to a laboratory in Wuhan, where it was found that they had contracted a coronavirus similar to SARS.

According to Latham, the virus can make "strange evolutionary leaps" and go through many mutations while staying in the human body for a long time. In some cases, accelerated evolution occurs, where "decades fit into six months."

The virologist believes that the Wuhan lab was leaked: "Our theory suggests that a similar evolution occurred in the lungs of miners after a mysterious illness in 2012." According to his theory, the virus "leaked" from a medical sample obtained from infected miners.