China releases wild new virus claim
Chinese scientists have made fresh claims about the origin of the COVID-19 virus, deflecting blame to another country entirely.
A team of Chinese scientists claim to have proof the COVID-19 pandemic didn't originate in China, instead researchers have pointed the blame at another country.
Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a research paper claiming the first coronavirus cases actually appeared in India before then travelling to Wuhan.
The paper claims the source of the virus could have been from humans and wild animals sharing the same water source due to a large heatwave across India and Pakistan in 2019.
“The water shortage made wild animals such as monkeys engage in the deadly fight over water among each other and would have surely increased the chance of human-wild animal interactions.”
However, other experts have thrown doubt on these claims, calling the paper “bias” and “very flawed”.
It comes after Victoria did the seemingly impossible, and officially eliminated COVID-19 by hitting a major milestone yesterday.
It wasn’t long ago, on August 11, that there were 7880 active cases in the state, but now Victoria has hit 28 days without a single infection.
Epidemiologists say elimination is achieved after 28 days without new infections or mystery cases in the community, but Victoria has gone one better with no infections recorded at all.
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