Coronavirus not created in lab, Italian health council

(ANSA) - Rome, March 27 - The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, was not created in a laboratory, the head of Italy's Higher Health Council, or CSS, Franco Locatelli said Friday. He warned against imagining some sort of "fantasy bio-terrorism" roots of the pandemic. Locatelli noted that "we have clear evidence that it was not possible to generate the SarsCoV2 virus in a laboratory," he said.