April 17, 2020

Andrew Campbell 

Earlier scientists at the University of Cambridge released their study which has tracked the genetic mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 to analyze the spread of which Coronavirus rapidly transmitted across the world. Theoretically, an original human virus genome of SARS-CoV-2 closest to the one found in both bats and pangolins. Therefore, researchers suspect these 2 species originally resulted in the Coronavirus infection from animals to humans.

While the COVID-19 pandemic remains escalating in the US, President Donald Trump reportedly pushes US intelligence and national security officials to investigate the possibility that the Coronavirus Type-A originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology bio lab, mainland China's first biosafety level 4 laboratory established in 2015, rather than a wet market nearby.

But according to the study from the University of Cambridge indicated the majority of COVID-19 infections detected in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, China was not predominantly Type-A. It is quite contradictory to the claim that the SARS-CoV-2 itself did originate in Wuhan. Still, it is premature to draw any conclusions without any evidence.

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