There is now “pretty convincing” evidence that COVID-19 originated from a market in Wuhan, Professor Luke O’Neill has said.
For years, scientists have debated whether the cause was Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Market where live animals were sold or whether another cause such as a lab leak was responsible.virus in the samples dates back to the beginning of the pandemic.“They can age viruses and the reason for that is a virus will mutate every time it divides at a certain rate; the older it is, the less mutations there are.
“Loads of swabs – drains were sampled, surfaces of all kinds were sampled and they measured the DNA of these exotic animals in those swabs. “They found evidence that those exotic animals were in the market and, more importantly, they found evidence of the virus on some of the same swabs.”