Lord Sugar has come under fire for spreading a 'dangerous' claim that the coronavirus was invented in China. The entrepreneur and star of BBC One's The Apprentice took to Twitter to share a post with his 5.3 million followers that claimed the deadly virus was created by the Chinese.
The post suggests that a Japanese Professor named Dr Tasuku Honjo believes that COVID-19 did not occur naturally or come from bats but was manufactured in a laboratory.
Lord Sugar, 73, shared without comment the lengthy post claiming to come from the scientist that read: "Based on all my knowledge and research to date, I can say with 100 per cent confidence that corona is not natural. “It did not come from bats.