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How did coronavirus start and where did it come from? Was it really Wuhan’s animal market?
It’s likely Covid-19 originated in bats, scientists say. But did it then spread to pangolins and humans?
In the public mind, the origin story of coronavirus seems well fixed: in late 2019 someone at the now world-famous Huanan seafood market in Wuhan was infected with a virus from an animal.
The rest is part of an awful history still in the making, with Covid-19 spreading from that first cluster in the capital of China’s Hubei province to a pandemic that has killed about 80,000 people so far.
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