Anonymous ID: 338c70 March 22, 2020, 9:58 p.m. No.8527594   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7711

Bats not sold in Wuhan market.

 

However, there is no evidence so far that the origin of SARS-CoV-2 was from the seafood market. Rather, bats are the natural reservoir of a wide variety of CoVs, including SARS-CoV-like and MERS-CoV-like viruses [11,12,13]. Upon virus genome sequencing, the COVID-19 was analyzed throughout the genome to Bat CoV RaTG13 and showed 96.2% overall genome sequence identity [8], suggesting that bat CoV and human SARS-CoV-2 might share the same ancestor, although bats are not available for sale in this seafood market.

 

https://mmrjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40779-020-00240-0#Sec2