SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe ...

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According to the paper, the precursor to SARS-CoV-2 originated in horseshoe bats in western China or Northern Laos several years before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Wuhan.

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years before the disease first emerged in humans up to 2,700 kilometers away ...