Claim: A peer-reviewed research paper says that the new coronavirus has been artificially engineered.
Fact-check: A Norwegian-British research paper doesn't claim the virus causing Covid-19 was man-made - Full Fact
Verdict: a norwegian virologist has made claims about the non-natural origins of the new coronavirus. but this claim is not in a new peer-reviewed paper he co-authored. the scientific community widely agrees that the virus was not artificially engineered.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Kate Lewis
Date published: 2020-06-18T00:00:00