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IMAGE: Schematic of our proposed evolutionary history of the nCoV clade and putative events leading to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. view more
Credit: MacLean OA, et al. (2021), Natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats created a generalist virus and highly capable human pathogen. PLoS Biol 19(3): e3001115. CC-BY.
How much did SARS-CoV-2 need to change in order to adapt to its new human host? In a research article published in the open access journal
PLOS Biology Oscar MacLean, Spyros Lytras at the University of Glasgow, and colleagues, show that since December 2019 and for the first 11 months of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic there has been very little important genetic change observed in the hundreds of thousands of sequenced virus genomes.
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Chinese officials have continued to cast doubt on the widely held belief that COVID-19 originated in China’s Hubei province in late 2019. Last month a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry suggested, without providing proof, that the virus could have originated in a laboratory in Maryland, USA.
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Chinese officials have continued to cast doubt on the widely held belief that COVID-19 originated in China s Hubei province in late 2019. Last month a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry suggested, without providing proof, that the virus could have originated in a laboratory in Maryland, USA.
Chinese commentators have previously suggested the epidemic could have begun in Italy or been spread to Wuhan by visiting American troops.
In response the BBC commented: We stand by our accurate and fair reporting of events in China and totally reject these unfounded accusations of fake news or ideological bias.