Scientists have looked at the genetic make-up of a coronavirus found in pangolins to see if the scaly animals were the intermediary host of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Experts who were not involved in the study told-2 naturally evolved from aScientists were able to start exploring the potential source of SARS-in January 2020.
It was thought that the virus may be, having passed from animals to humans, as many early cases were linked to a wet food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the originalcoronavirusescoronavirusescarry 61 viruses known to infect humans. But RaTG13's spike protein which it uses to invade a host's cells is different-print study
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