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Comment by Nandkumar M. Kamat

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Columnist and writer on science and public affairs
More than 60% of the earliest confirmed COVID-19 cases in December 2019 had a direct or indirect link to a single location: the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. Environmental swabs taken from the market in January 2020 — after it had been closed and before it was sterilised — revealed something telling: two distinct genetic lineages of SARS-CoV-2 were already circulating. Two lineages, not one. That pattern is characteristic of a virus that has been quietly evolving and spreading before anyone noticed — consistent with natural spillover, inconsistent with a single recent lab leak.
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The Navhind Times, "Where did COVID-19 come from?," February 28, 2026.
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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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Disputed The quoted text appears verbatim at the supplied URL. However, the source page’s byline identifies the article author as Nandkumar M. Kamat, not The Navhind Times; the March 1, 2026 Navhind Times e-paper reproduces the same article under his name and describes him as a scientist and science writer. So the quote is authentic, but the stored author field is wrong. ([navhindtimes.in](https://navhindtimes.in/panorama/where-did-covid-19-come-from/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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