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01 April 2020

Truths, Rumours and Lies About the Origin of the Coronavirus: What Science Knows

One of the remaining challenges of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19 disease, is to clarify its origin. There have been so many rumours and hypotheses that the general public has reason to be confused: did the outbreak occur in a market in Wuhan or elsewhere? Is the virus really new? Did it jump to humans from bats or pangolins? Did it escape from a laboratory? Even more intriguing, could it be a biological weapon created by China, or by the US against China? Learn more about it here.