Tribunnews Reporter, Fitri Wulandari
TRIBUNJABAR.ID, PARIS – The world is currently in almost the second year of the pandemic corona virus (Covid-19), but the origin of this so-called Johns Hopkins University disease that has killed nearly 5 million people, still remains a mystery.
Scientists have given different explanations, including one suggesting that the virus emerged because of a leak in a Chinese laboratory.
While a group of French scientists called SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes disease Covid-19 did not come from a cave in Yunnan province, China.
Last year, a group of Indian researchers published an article suggesting that Mojiang Cave could be the birthplace corona virus, due to viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 was found in Mojiang in 2012.
At that time, 6 miners were suffering from severe respiratory illness after clearing the cave of bat droppings to mine copper.
The men were between 30 and 60 years old and 3 of them died from the disease.
Subsequent checks revealed that the miners were infected corona virus named ‘RaTG13’.
Virus samples were collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology while Indian scientists said that RaTG13 is a close relative SARS-CoV-2.
But their French counterparts, however, have claimed otherwise.
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