Tribunnews Reporter, Fitri Wulandari
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, PARIS – The world is currently in its almost second year coronavirus pandemic (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 also given different explanations, including those suggesting that the virus emerged because of a leak in the laboratory China.
While a group of French scientist said SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease Covid-19 did not originate in a cave in Yunnan province, China.
Last year, a group of Indian researchers published an article suggesting that Mojiang Cave could be the birthplace of the coronavirus, because a virus similar to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered 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 aged between 30 and 60 years and 3 of them died from the disease.
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Subsequent checks revealed that the miners were infected with a coronavirus named ‘RaTG13’.
Virus samples were collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology while Indian scientists said that RaTG13 is a close relative of SARS-CoV-2.
But their French counterparts, however, have claimed otherwise.
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