LONDON: Data from the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, briefly uploaded to a global database by Chinese scientists, gives crucial information on the outbreak’s origins, including information from an animal market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, researchers said.
The data from the Chinese centre for disease control and prevention is no longer available on the Gisaid database where it was found by the scientists. “This adds to the body of evidence identifying the Huanan market as the spillover location of Sars-CoV-2 and the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said the report.