I read an article in a British newspaper that said that scientists from the Wuhan virology institute, visited a cave system about 1000 mile from Wuhan, looking for samples of bat viruses. This was in summer of last year. Apparently there had been three unexplained deaths and several illnesses, in some nearby town.
Did it escape from the institute, who knows. Did they leak it intentionally, who knows. I read that we do know that the virus infecting us and Europeans, is slightly different from the Chinese variety.
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