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Chinese scientists have uncovered 142 bat coronaviruses related to the one that causes Sars , but none closely linked to the virus that causes Covid-19, according to the largest release of related research from within China since the start of the pandemic. In a paper uploaded on the preprint server Research Square on Monday, researchers from the Institute of Pathogen.
The team of experts organized by the WHO to investigate the origin of the COVID-19 virus have dismissed claims it leaked from a Chinese laboratory and emphasized that their research was cohesive and comprehensive. To this day, no scientific evidence has been found to back the theory that the virus was made by humans in a lab. Reckless propagation of the theory that the virus originated in a lab should be discarded, said Wu Zhiqiang, a researcher at the Institute of Pathogen Biology under the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College.
Wu was a member of an international team that visited Wuhan in Hubei province from Jan 14 to Feb 10 to study the origin of SARS-CoV-2. The team was convened by the World Health Organization and consisted of 17 Chinese and 17 foreign experts. Respecting scientific facts was the bedrock for the launch of the mission. During the mission, Chinese and foreign experts came together as a whole and conducted research with the prer
A Chinese PhD Thesis Sheds Important New Light On The Origin of the COVID-19 Coronavirus
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One of the very earliest scientific papers from the COVID-19 pandemic era now has over 11,000 citations. Appearing in the scientific journal
Nature on February 3rd 2020, Zhou et al., 2020 reported the genome sequence of a novel coronavirus isolated from patients with atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China. Its senior author was leading coronavirus researcher Zheng-li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (the WIV). Along with what we now call SARS-CoV-2, her paper also reported the genome sequence of a closely related (96.2% identical) bat virus. The authors called this virus RaTG13. To this day RaTG13 is still the closest known viral genome by far to SARS-CoV-2.
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