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Wuhan Institute of Virology bat coronavirus researcher

She insisted that none of these viruses is the ancestor of SARS-CoV-2.

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Shi Zhengli, as reported by Hervé Morin, “Covid-19: Five years on, search for origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains fruitless,” Le Monde, January 1, 2025.

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AI Verified Le Monde reports that Shi Zhengli said none of the sequenced viruses was the ancestor of SARS-CoV-2; the stored text matches the source passage and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 2mo ago

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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover

RaTG13 was the closest SARS-CoV-2 relative we had ever had. We could not have leaked what we did not have.

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