Previously unseen genomic samples suggest animals at Huanan market were potential source
Newly released data from early in the Covid-19 pandemic has offered a crucial insight into the outbreak’s origins, suggesting that Covid-infected animals were present at a market in Wuhan and could have been a “potential source of human infections”.
“This adds to the body of evidence identifying the Huanan market as the spillover location of Sars-CoV-2 and the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said the report., signed into law a bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. This follows reports that the US Department of Energy had assessed with “low confidence” that the laboratory may have been linked to the outbreak.
The new research examined genomic sequences from the newly released material, which was collected at the Wuhan market. That includes racoon dogs, which it is speculated may have been present at the market before it was cleared early in the outbreak as part of the Chinese health authorities’ immediate intervention.
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