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Novel coronavirus not from Wuhan, says top German virologist – CGTN
The SARS-CoV-2, which caused the global COVID-19 pandemic, did not originate in Wuhan, claimed top German virologist Prof. Alexander Kekulé on Thursday.
The novel coronavirus rampant around the world is not from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, but a mutation from northern Italy, top German virologist Alexander Kekule said on Thursday.
The Italian strain is called “G” mutant, which has genetic mutations, explained Prof. Kekule on the ZDF talk show. It is likely to be more contagious than the variant found in Wuhan, where was once the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in China.
Over 99 percent of the COVID-19 cases can be genetically traced back…
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