French Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier who confirmed the study claiming Coronavirus was engineered with AIDS like insertions has succumbed to death at the age of 89.

Luc Montagnier, the French Nobel laureate who co-discovered HIV and was one of the earliest to assert that Covid-19 originated in a laboratory, as early as April 2020, has passed away at the age of 89, according to France 24.

Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi received the Nobel Prize in 2008 for their work isolating HIV at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, according to the article. Montagnier had also been noted for his "bitter rivalry" with US researcher Robert Gallo in the identification of HIV.