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By Samantha Hawley and Flint Duxfield for ABC News Daily

COVID-19 lab-leak theory challenged by Australian professor who has been dubbed 'the virus hunter'

Eddie Holmes can still remember the exact moment he first learned about COVID-19.

The University of Sydney virologist said it was New Year's Eve, 2019, when he received a news alert that China had notified the World Health Organization of a strange new virus. 

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