Coronavirus did not originate in Wuhan seafood market, Chinese scientists say | South China Morning Post

The novel

coronavirus

that has claimed the lives of more than 2,400 people did not originate at a seafood market in the central China city of

Wuhan

as was first thought, according to a new study by a team of Chinese scientists.

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was instead imported from elsewhere, said researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research.

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