New Delhi, June 3 (TIWN) As the entire world scramble to find answers to the origin of the lethal Covid virus, a group of amateur sleuths called 'DRASTIC', with few resources, has claimed to reveal the dark secrets of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the media reported on Wednesday.

DRASTIC stands for "decentralised radical autonomous search team investigating Covid-19" and it has set itself the mission of exploring the origins of SARS-CoV-2.  "Thanks to DRASTIC, we now know that the WIV had an extensive collection of coronaviruses gathered over many years of foraging in the bat caves and that many of them -- including the closest-known relative to the pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2 -- came from a mineshaft where three men died from a suspected SARS-like disease in 2012," Newsweek reported on Wednesday. 

"We know that the WIV was actively working with these viruses, using inadequate safety protocols, in ways that could have triggered the pandemic and that the lab and Chinese authorities have gone to great lengths to conceal these activities," the report added.