Right, so what do we know about the origins of the virus?
Currently, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) are trying to work that out.
Peter Ben Embarek, who is heading the WHO-led team probing the origins of COVID-19 gave an updated overnight.
He said bats remained a likely source and that transmission of the virus via frozen food is a possibility that warrants further investigation, but he ruled out a lab leak.
“The possible path from whatever original animal species all the way through to the Huanan market could have taken a very long and convoluted path involving also movements across borders,” Dr Embarek told a nearly three-hour media briefing.
Dr Embarek said work to identify the coronavirus’s origins points to a natural reservoir in bats, but it's unlikely that they were in Wuhan.
He said the team had identified market vendors selling frozen animal products including farmed wild animals.
“So there is the potential to continue to follow this lead and further look at the supply chain and animals that were supplied to the market,” he said.
“We know the virus can survive in conditions that are found in these cold, frozen environments, but we don’t really understand if the virus can transmit to humans."
And sorry to all those conspiracy theorists out there.
Dr Embarek said the possibility the virus leaked from a lab was extremely unlikely and did not require further study.
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