As the World Health Organization presses on with an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, the question of where it came from seems to be generating more heat than light.
The WHO team will investigate if the pathogen possibly jumped from an animal to a human host in Wuhan, or whether it slipped into the city from somewhere else. Wuhan University virology professor Yang Zhanqiu said suggestions the virus entered the country on imported frozen food were just guesses “that do not have supporting evidence ”, according to nationalist tabloid Global Times.
The specific antibodies found in the Italian study were insufficient to prove that the patient had Covid-19, he said at a forum organised by Hong Kong media platform Master Insight Media on Friday. Sars-CoV-2 is one of several coronaviruses that have emerged since the 1960s. Two others – Middle East respiratory syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome – are believed to have jumped from animals, known as a zoonotic source, and can be fatal to humans.
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