BEIJING – Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are now sayingthat the coronavirus originated in India in July-August 2019 when anunbearable heat wave forced animals and humans from multiple areas of thecountry to share the same water sources.
From there it traveled to Wuhan, where it was first detected.
Chinese researchers further claim that COVID-19 might as well have beenoriginated from other countries, including Greece.
The researchers say their analysis disproves the theory that the virusfirst appeared in Wuhan, and suggests eight other countries as the sourceof the pandemic: Bangladesh, India, Italy, the United States, Greece,Australia, the Czech Republic, Russia and Serbia.
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Of these countries, India and Bangladesh emerged as the leading candidates.The fact that the two Asian countries have inadequate health systems mayhave allowed COVID-19 to spread silently and reach China, possibly viaEurope.
The study has been submitted for The Lancetlinkbuthas not yet been peer-reviewed.
