Explosive study points to Chinese lab as source of COVID-19 On Kindly Share This Story: People wait to cremate victims who died due to the COVID-19 disease at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui Amid calls for a fresh probe into the origins of Covid-19, an explosive new study has found that Chinese scientists created the virus in a lab in Wuhan, then tried to cover their tracks by reverse-engineering versions of the virus to make it look like it evolved naturally from bats. The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus has no “credible natural ancestor” and was created by Chinese scientists who were working on a ‘Gain of Function’ project in a Wuhan lab, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday, citing a new research paper by British professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr Birger Sorensen.