A virus closely related to Covid-19 was found seven years ago in an abandoned Chinese mine, it has emerged. IOL_Lifestyle
Three of the men died and four later tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, after samples of the virus were sent to a laboratory in Wuhan the next year. The revelation is one of the most significant developments in tracing the origin of the disease, thought to have started in the city in eastern China last year.
"I am not saying anything other than it was the result of an accident and that the virus is the consequence of gain-of-function experiments that were being conducted in Wuhan, which I don’t think are particularly sinister.
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