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
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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
from going down the same lines and what we know now is that the wildlife trade in china is at the centre of this outbreak and so yeah, absolutely, let s figure out what we can do to stop that from happening again and there is plenty we can do. indeed, professor, and just briefly, talk us through some of the things we should be looking to do in the event of another outbreak. looking to do in the event of another outbreak. ok, so one of the things another outbreak. ok, so one of the things that another outbreak. ok, so one of the things that is another outbreak. ok, so one of the things that is amazing, - the things that is amazing, actually is how quickly we identified this up and chinese doctors, by december 27, identified this up and chinese doctors, by december27, had worked out this was a new thing and what our paper shows is that only it probablyjumped into humans may be in late november so this is a very quick connecting of the dots when you consider how few people were inf
the event of another outbreak. (ziii, so, when at the things that is amazing, actually, is how quickly we identify this outbreak and chinese doctors by december 27 had worked out that this was anything, and went our paper shows is that it only probablyjumped into humans may be in late november, so this is a very quick connecting of the dots when you consider how few people are infected early on. we need to detect weird 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 to take samples from then and to molecularly characterise them, which we can do any day now and find out is this a new coronavirus, is this a new flu virus. all of that, this a 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