Two men in protective suits pick up a salamander in the market in Wuhan, January 27, 2020. Chinatopix via AP
DECRYPTION – Samples taken in January 2020 attest to the presence of animals in contact with Sars-CoV-2 on the Wuhan market.
Will we one day know what path Sars-CoV-2 took to become this contagious and pathogenic virus which caused the death of nearly 7 million people and forced men to cloister for several months all over the planet? ? In this quest for origins, new crucial clues have just been unveiled by an international team.
On March 20, researchers published genetic sequences of wild animals found in environmental samples also containing traces of Sars-CoV-2, taken from the market in Wuhan (China) in January 2020, at the very beginning of the pandemic.
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