{"id":16974,"date":"2020-04-08T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/08\/how-did-coronavirus-start-and-where-did-it-come-from-was-it-really-wuhans-animal-market"},"modified":"2020-04-08T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:22:32","slug":"how-did-coronavirus-start-and-where-did-it-come-from-was-it-really-wuhans-animal-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16974","title":{"rendered":"How did coronavirus start and where did it come from? Was it really Wuhan&#8217;s animal market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s likely Covid-19 originated in bats, scientists say. But did it then jump to pangolins?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Hubei province to a pandemic that has killed about 80,000 people so far.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/08\/how-did-coronavirus-start-and-where-did-it-come-from-was-it-really-wuhans-animal-market\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s likely Covid-19 originated in bats, scientists say. But did it then jump to pangolins?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 wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,43,918,50,1069,914,512,916,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16975,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16974\/revisions\/16975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}