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China publishes COVID-origins data
short by Ankush Verma / on Friday, 7 April, 2023
China has published an analysis of swabs collected at a market in Wuhan in the early weeks of COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis confirmed swabs from the market contained genetic material from wild animals and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Analysis suggests that it's possible an animal could have been an intermediate host of the virus that spilled over to infect humans.