Samples were collected in early 2020 from surfaces at the Huanan seafood market and the genetic sequences were recently uploaded by China to the world's largest public virus database. They were then taken down but not before a French biologist spotted the information by chance.
Raccoon dogs have been linked to the origins of COVID in a new study suggesting the pandemic may have emanated from animals and not a laboratory leak.
Samples were collected in early 2020 from surfaces at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan and the genetic sequences were recently uploaded by China to the world's largest public virus database. The World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the latest data findings do not provide a definitive answer on how the pandemic first began but stated"every piece of data is important to moving us closer to that answer".
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