their first ever major tournament. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. our top story for you today: scientists say there s compelling evidence that a market selling live animals in the chinese city of wuhan was the early epicentre of the covid 19 pandemic. it s a significant contribution to what s always been the dominant theory that the outbreak began with the coronavirus spreading from animals to humans at the so called wet market . this is the seafood wholesale market in wuhan. one of the studies just published in the journal science says genetic information suggests there were two crossover events where animals infected humans in late 2019. a second study also in science shows the earliest known cases in the city were clustered, around that market. i spoke to dr michael worobey, one of the lead authors of that study and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the university of arizona. he took us through the resea
in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. our top story for you today: scientists say there s compelling evidence that a market selling live animals in the chinese city of wuhan was the early epicentre of the covid 19 pandemic. it s a significant contribution to what s always been the dominant theory that the outbreak began with the coronavirus spreading from animals to humans at the so called wet market . this is the seafood wholesale market in wuhan. one of the studies just published in the journal science, says genetic information suggests there were two crossover events where animals infected humans in late 2019. a second study also in science shows the earliest known cases in the city were clustered, around that market. i spoke to dr michael worobey, one of the lead authors of that study and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the university of arizona. he took us thr
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shows the earliest known cases in the city were clustered, around that market. i spoke to dr michael worobey, one of the lead authors of that study and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the university of arizona. he took us through the research that was involved in coming to these conclusions. we published two papers in science magazine today. the first as you mentioned places the wuhan market at the epicentre of this pandemic, very, very clearly and on that one, we relied on data that had been collected as part of that who mission that was joint with china but you mentioned and that data has been around for about a year, but the location information, the residences of the earliest 174 cases back in
cases of pneumonia that can t be explained by the things that we already know cause pneumonia very quickly and we need to take those people, take samples from them and molecularly characterise them which we can do in a day now and find out, is this a new coronavirus, new flu virus? all of that, this pandemic has shown we can do but we didn t do a good job in terms of moving through the paces as quickly as we could to public health measures that actually stopped it from becoming a pandemic, but i m encouraged that we can do a lot at, and a virus like this, we could stop next time. that was one of the lead authors of that study and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the university of arizona. in other top stories for you today: the worst recession in half a century.