The Chinese virology institute on the center of U.S. allegations that it could have been the supply of the COVID-19 pandemic has three reside strains of bat coronavirus on-site, however, none match the brand new world contagion, its director has stated.

Scientists assume COVID-19 originated in bats and will have been transmitted to individuals by way of one other mammal.

But the director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology advised state broadcaster CGTN that claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump and others the virus may have leaked from the ability had been “pure fabrication”.

In the interview filmed on May 13 however broadcast on Saturday night time, Wang Yanyi stated the center has “isolated and obtained some coronaviruses from bats”. “Now we have three strains of live viruses… But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 only reaches 79.8 percent,” she stated, referring to the coronavirus pressure that causes COVID-19. One of their analysis groups, led by Professor Shi Zhengli, has been researching bat coronaviruses since 2004 and targeted on the “source tracing of SARS”, the pressure behind one other virus outbreak practically 20 years in the past.

“We know that the whole genome of SARS-CoV-2 is only 80% similar to that of SARS. It’s an obvious difference,” she stated. “So, in Professor Shi’s past research, they didn’t pay attention to such viruses which are less similar to the SARS virus.”

Chinese scientists have stated that the virus first emerged at a market promoting reside animals in Wuhan, although officers in Beijing extra lately forged doubt about its origins.

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