The deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology says COVID-19 did not originate in the lab after a series of tests revealed new information.
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According to the New York Post, Shi Zhengli revealed that updated tests of blood samples taken several years ago from a group of miners who worked in bat caves. The miners became ill after working in the caves but their results showed they did not become infected with COVID-19.
Zhengli revealed the genetic components of the viruses she’s worked with did not match with the characteristics of the coronavirus in humans.
“In 2020, we compared the sequence of Sars-CoV-2 with our unpublished bat coronavirus sequences and found that it shared a 96.2 per cent identity with RaTG13,”
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The findings were posted as an update to an article that was published by Zhengli and other scientists in February. Currently, 58 million people have been infected by the virus and 1.37 million have died due to complications from the virus.
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