Edited sentence: According to Luc Montagnier, the "presence of elements of HIV and germ of malaria in the genome of coronavirus is highly suspect and the characteristics of the virus could not have arisen naturally.Pertinent to note here that on 2nd August 2020 Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier argued that the Coronavirus disease 2019 was man-made.Subsequent research has shown that proponents of the "natural" origin theory failed to consider a common laboratory technique known as serial passage.Using this technique, it remains a possibility that a laboratory did create COVID-19