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COVID-19 probably did not originate in Wuhan, according to a leading geneticist who has reconstructed the "evolutionary path" of the virus.
Peter Forster, geneticist and vice president of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research at Cambridge University, also told an online lecture the idea that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan seafood market is a "red herring."
So far, the pandemic has infected 219 million people globally and killed more than 4.5 million.
Forster added that the variants of COVID-19 responsible for the vast scale of the global pandemic, including Delta and Beta, can be traced back to a mutation that occurred in north Italy.
