No not yet. To summarize, there are two main leads: a natural origin, and a laboratory leak in China. The first is considered the most plausible by the scientific community, but without certainty. “We can always look for the most quirky scenario to fit origin in laboratory. But at some point, you have to look at the data. And all those available (localization of the first cases, genetic analysis, etc.) favor an origin on the Wuhan market”, Florence Débarre, evolutionary biologist at the CNRS, recently told us.
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