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Indian scientist too flagged Wuhan lab leak way back
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New Delhi, June 6 : Amid the clamour for an in-depth investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, Indian scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi were reportedly the first to have flagged the lab-leak theory.
A team of biologists at the Kusuma School of Biological Sciences in IIT Delhi wrote a 22-page research paper that was released as a pre-print on bioRxiv on January 31, last year.
However, in response to a deluge of criticism, the research paper on COVID origin was withdrawn soon after it was posted. It was the first scientific study signalling the possibility of the virus being engineered.
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database of migrant workers in southwest Bihar’s Kaimur district. But for the last three years, Ram has worked as a contract labourer among the tens of thousands employed at the Alang ship-breaking and recycling yard in Gujarat, making enough to get by.
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