Despite this knowledge of the virus, which has already taken 2.6 million. lives and undermined the global economy, there is still a huge gap in our understanding of it – we still don’t know how it came about.
Where pathogens first appeared and how they were transmitted to humans remains an unimaginable mystery, and its explanation is moving further and further with each passing month. The traces of the virus, which led to the very first outbreak in one of China’s food markets, are largely cold, and the country hit first by the innovative virus – which many blame for spreading the infection to an unprepared world – shows little initiative in finding out. in fact, the greatest threat to human health in a century was born.
China has successfully curbed COVID-19: it has been aided by strict border controls, mass population testing and a surveillance network that has allowed infected individuals and their contacts to be tracked via mobile phone data. However, as the fight for the source of the pandemic continues as a result of the wider conflict between the world’s two superpowers, China has been trying to revisit the virus’s narrative from the start, most obviously at the original epicenter of the virus, Wuhan.
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