Now It’s UK: Why Are Labs Racing To See Who Can Create The Most Deadly Virus?
The Daily Mail reports researchers at Imperial College London have hybridised the original Wuhan strain of the disease adding BOTH the Omicron or Delta variants.

There is no justification for intentionally making potential pandemic viruses more transmissible and more deadly. The consequences of an accident could be too horrific, and such engineered viruses are not needed for vaccines.