Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 21.
More than 20 mainstream scientists around the world have co-authored this article, including Edward Holmes of the Mary Bashir Institute of Infectious Diseases and Biosafety, University of Sydney, Australia, Stephen Goldstein of the Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, USA, vaccine and infectious Disease organization University of Saskatchewan in Canada Angela Rasmussen, Research Center, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom David Robertson and other viruses
The article said that no epidemic in human history was caused by the escape of a new type of virus, and there is no data showing that before the outbreak of the new crown, Wuhan Institute of Virology or other laboratories were studying the new crown virus or any virus that was enough to become the ancestor of the new crown virus
The RaTG13 reported by the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the most similar coronavirus known to the new coronavirus.
The author of the article also reviewed the evidence supporting the origin and natural evolution of the new coronavirus zoonosis
The article concluded that there is currently no evidence that the new coronavirus originated in the laboratory, and there is no evidence that any early new coronavirus cases have any connection with Wuhan virus research
Focus on the new crown pneumonia epidemic
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