{"id":17192,"date":"2020-04-15T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/15\/how-did-the-coronavirus-start-where-did-it-come-from-how-did-it-spread-humans-was-it-really-bats-pangolins-wuhan-animal-market"},"modified":"2020-04-15T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T01:32:14","slug":"how-did-coronavirus-start-and-where-did-it-come-from-was-it-really-wuhans-animal-market-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17192","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 spread to pangolins and humans?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\"> updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/15\/how-did-the-coronavirus-start-where-did-it-come-from-how-did-it-spread-humans-was-it-really-bats-pangolins-wuhan-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 spread to pangolins and humans?Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn the public mind, the origin story of coronavirus seems well fixed: in late 2019 someo&#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-17192","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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17192","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=17192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17193,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17192\/revisions\/17193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}