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Battling global adversity over the coronavirus and bracing for a WHO inquiry over its origin, China on Friday claimed that just because COVID-19 cases were first reported in Wuhan does not mean the contagion originated from the central Chinese city. A paper by researchers at the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences suggests the virus existed on the Indian subcontinent before the Wuhan outbreak in December last year - but the theory is disputed. The research, entitled ‘ The Early Cryptic Transmission and Evolution of Sars-Cov-2 in Human Hosts ’, challenges general orthodoxy among scientists that the virus originated in the...
