Updated: May 12 2021, 7:47 ET
COVID is a perfect weapon and shows how biowarfare could quickly bring the world to its knees , according to a former military chemical weapons expert.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon spoke out after it was revealed Chinese scientists had probed weaponising coronaviruses five years before the start of the pandemic.
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Chinese scientists reportedly considered weaponising coronaviruses back in 2015Credit: EPA
The colonel does not believe Covid is man-made weapon - but it demonstrates the threat of what could happen if a biological agent was released by an enemy state or terrorist group.
He exclusively told The Sun Online: I was not at all surprised by the report about China.