{"id":25622,"date":"2020-12-12T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/12\/where-did-coronavirus-come-from-covid"},"modified":"2020-12-12T19:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T10:00:34","slug":"origin-story-what-do-we-know-now-about-where-coronavirus-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25622","title":{"rendered":"Origin story: what do we know now about where coronavirus came from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Chinese scientists alerted colleagues to a new virus last December, suspicion fell on a Wuhan market. What have health officials learned since then?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.theguardian.com\/contribute?acquisitionData=%7B%22source%22%3A%22GUARDIAN_WEB%22%2C%22componentType%22%3A%22ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST%22%2C%22componentId%22%3A%22covid_supplement_2020_standfirst%22%2C%22campaignCode%22%3A%22covid_supplement_2020%22%7D&amp;INTCMP=covid_supplement_2020\">Show your support for rigorous, independent Guardian journalism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 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>Maria van Kerkhove was staying with her sister in the US for the Christmas holidays, but checking her emails. As always. Every day there are signals of potential trouble, said the World Health Organization virologist who was to become a household name and face within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always something that happens at Christmas time. There\u2019s always some alert, or a signal of a suspected case. The last several years it\u2019s been Mers [Middle East respiratory syndrome] \u2013 a suspect case travelling to Malaysia or Indonesia or Korea or somewhere in Asia from the Middle East. So there\u2019s always some kind of signal. There\u2019s always something that happens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/12\/where-did-coronavirus-come-from-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Chinese scientists alerted colleagues to a new virus last December, suspicion fell on a Wuhan market. What have health officials learned since then?Show your support for rigorous, independent Guardian journalismCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":998,"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":[265,41,918,50,1066,346,914,1774,512,916,299,79,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-long-covid","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-society","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25622","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\/998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25622\/revisions\/25623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}