TEACH US SOMETHING COOL | COVID-19: Was It Made In A Lab? | Recorded on April 21st, 2021  

There are several ongoing efforts by scientists, governments, international organisations, and others to determine the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The scientific consensus is that it is a zoonotic virus that arose from bats in a natural setting.

SARS-CoV-2 is a virus of the species severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV). It is believed to have zoonotic origins and has close genetic similarity to bat coronaviruses, suggesting it emerged from a bat-borne virus. Research is ongoing as to whether SARS-CoV-2 came directly from bats or indirectly through any intermediate hosts. Initial genome sequences of the virus showed little genetic diversity, although subsequently a number of stable variants emerged (some spreading more vigorously), indicating that the spillover event introducing SARS-CoV-2 to humans is likely to have occurred in late 2019.

Health authorities and scientists internationally state that efforts to trace the specific geographic and taxonomic origins of SARS-CoV-2 could take years, and the results could be inconclusive. A number of conspiracy theories have been promoted about the origins of the virus. Echoing the views of scientists internationally, a World Health Organization (WHO) mission said that a laboratory leak origin for the virus was "extremely unlikely", supporting what most experts already expected about the likely natural origins of the virus and its early transmission. The WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was ready to deploy additional missions for further investigation.

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