Since the pandemic began, the question of where the coronavirus came from has been one of the biggest puzzles.It almost certainly originated in bats.But the lack of clarity around how the virus passed to people has meant that unsubstantiated theories promoted by US President Donald Trump that it escaped from a laboratory in China persist. The nature of the evidence required means it’s going to be hard to track down the animal source and also difficult to completely rule out the facility in question, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Conspiracy theorists have suggested that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is manmade leaked from the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory that is in the area where the pandemic originated. To counter these researchers with Scripps Research and other institutions around the globe published a study in the journal Nature Medicine debunking the theory after an analysis of the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2. Despite the numerous recent articles published in the literature, many controversies still persist both among healthcare professionals and common people. In this review article different origin of the coronavirus is dealt with.
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