Wuhan lab had three live bat coronaviruses: Chinese state media

Beijing (AFP) May 24, 2020

The Chinese virology institute at the centre of US allegations it may have been the source of the COVID-19 pandemic has three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, but none match the new global contagion, its director has said. Scientists think COVID-19 - which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan and has killed more than 340,000 people worldwide - originated in bats and c