Oxford expert claims coronavirus existed worldwide before emerging in China

An Oxford University expert has me a sensational claim on vel coronavirus outbreak, saying virus existed across globe before it first emerged in Wuhan. According to China’s state-run Xinhua news ncy, Tom Jefferson, a senior associate tutor at Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford, said that vel coronavirus broke out whenever and wherever it found favourable conditions.

Jefferson opined that virus was omnipresent in a dormant state and got activate by favourable environmental conditions. He wondered how coronavirus reached Falklands Islands, a remote archipelago in South Atlantic Ocean on Patagonian Shelf, or passengers on a cruise ship, that travelled from South Georgia to Bues Aires, suddenly tested positive on eighth day.

Referring to Spanish Flu of 1918, Jefferson said that around 30 per cent of population of Western Samoa died of disease while y h communication with outside world. He stressed at possibility of such viruses being omnipresent and something triggers ir outbreak.

" explanation for this could only be that se nts don't come or go anywhere. y are always here and something ignites m, maybe human density or environmental conditions, and this is what we should be looking for," he was quoted as saying.

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origin of SARS-CoV-2 is t kwn but preliminary studies suggested that bats could be source since coronavirus present in bats has a geme that is 96 per cent identical to vel coronavirus. It is believed that pangolin was immediate host because bat coronavirus cant bind to receptors in human cells, however, re has t been any concrete evidence.

However, recent reports from Spain and Italy, claiming to have traces of vel coronavirus from sew water before virus outbreak in China, have left experts wondering about origin. A rewned Chinese virologist claimed that vel coronavirus is just “ tip of iceberg” and called for an vanced study of unkwn viruses.

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(With ncy inputs)