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    DeTect: Nobel laureate made no claims on lab origin of virus
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    Tasuku Honjo

    Chennai

    A lengthy text message has gone viral on WhatsApp which claims that Japan’s Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Tasuku Honjo said that coronavirus is not natural but “manufactured by China”. Along with the text, there is a link to Honjo’s Wikipedia page. Alt News fact checked this and found that in an e-mail, a PhD student working under the scholar gave out a statement on behalf of the professor that “Prof Honjo never made any such statements.”

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