Coronavirus is a lab made virus, claims Nitin Gadkari
New Delhi : Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has claimed that the novel coronavirus is not a natural virus, instead it has been created in a lab. His comments came days after the virus has claimed lives of over 2.9 lakh people across the globe.
In an interview with NDTV, Gadkari also said that we have we will have to learn the art of living with the coronavirus as it's not a natural virus and the world doesn't have a response for it.
"...We need to understand the art of living with corona. That art of living is very important as it is not a natural virus. It is an artificial virus and many countries across the world are researching for a vaccine," Gadkari said in an interview with NDTV.
Nitin Gadkari is the first minister to react on the origin of coronavirus. His comments comes at a time when many countries, including the US, have raised suspicion on virus getting developed in one of the labs situated in Wuhan.
"The second thing is detection methodology. We need some good methodology. Immediately, we can identify (the virus). This is unexpected because this a virus from laboratory, this is not a natural virus," the union minister added.
US President Donald Trump, on multiple occasions, has blamed China for allowing the virus to spread around the world. He has also referred to it as 'Chinese virus'.