Researchers are still racing to find out the origins of the coronavirus and a recent study out of China suggests there’s a natural connection between the virus and bats.
Scientists have found a close relative of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in bats along with so-called insertion events, or mutations into genomes, that show the virus’ make-up can change naturally.
“Since the discovery of SARS-CoV-2 there have been a number of unfounded suggestions that the virus has a laboratory origin,” Shandong First Medical University microbiologist Weifeng Shi says in an article about the report, published on the ScienceAlert news website.
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