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A laboratory in Cambodia has detected close relatives of the pathogen in samples that have been stored in a freezer for more than a decade, according to a eldery report from Novemeber.
A laboratory in Cambodia has detected close relatives of the pathogen in samples that have been stored in a freezer for more than a decade, according to a eldery report from Novemeber.
Two viruses detected in the samples, taken in 2010 from horseshoe bats in northeastern Cambodia and reported in research published on Tuesday, behind the Covid-19 pandemic, have a 92.6 percent similarity to SARS-CoV-2.
This makes them the nearest relatives identified outside China and adds new evidence to the investigation into where the pathogen originated from.
A bat virus discovered in southwest China's Yunnan province, which has a 96.2 percent resemblance, is the nearest known relative to the virus that causes Covid-19.
Source medical report published in the scientists magazin @nature
"Coronaviruses closely related to the pandemic virus discovered in Japan and Cambodia"
nature.com/articles/d4158…
"Coronaviruses closely related to the pandemic virus discovered in Japan and Cambodia"
nature.com/articles/d4158…
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