Claim: The 2019 novel coronavirus has triggered multiple false and misleading claims about the origins of the disease outbreak across social media. A new claim is that the potentially deadly infection is a "man-made" combination of parts of the HIV-1 virus and the SARS virus.
Fact-check: The 2019 coronavirus is not a man-made combination of HIV and SARS viruses
Verdict: based on the evidence, aap factcheck found the facebook post to be false. there is no scientific evidence that the 2019 novel coronavirus is a combination of the sars and hiv - 1 viruses and there is also no evidence that it was man-made or created in the wuhan institute of virology.
Organisation: Australian Associated Press
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2020-02-06T00:00:00