‘China planned to release enhanced coronavirus in bat caves in 2018’

According to the group, a project named DEFUSE headed by Dr Peter Daszak, president of US-based non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, proposed to reduce the threat of bat-borne coronaviruses by genetically enhancing them and releasing them among bats in Yunnan around 2,000km south west of Wuhan in 2018, the Daily Mail reported.