As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the globe, a common public opinion is that the virus originated from a pangolin in a wet market in Wuhan in China.

Scientists are trying to trace COVID-19 to its original source and questions remain about how the virus was passed on to humans, and from which species.

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