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Nottingham Post
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Ben Reid

Study traces origins of virus responsible for Covid-19 to horseshoe bats

The origins of the virus responsible for Covid-19 have been “unambiguously” traced to horseshoe bats, according to a new study.

However, scientists said that “dramatically more wildlife sampling” is needed to pinpoint the creature that ultimately passed the virus to humans and warned that there is “undoubtedly” a virus highly related to SARS-CoV-2 still present somewhere in the wild.

The study, led by the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, looked at the evolutionary history of bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19.

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