Raccoon Dog DNA at Wuhan Market Not Conclusive Evidence for Covid-19 Origin, China Says

Chinese scientists have published a study in the journal Nature confirming the presence of animals susceptible to the coronavirus at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan in early 2020, where many of the earliest known Covid patients had worked or shopped. The study found DNA from raccoon dogs and other animals at the market, but the scientists said it remained unclear how the pandemic began. Many virologists believe the virus spilled into people from an illegally traded wild animal at the market, but the Chinese authors stressed uncertainty and raised the notion that the virus could have been ferried to the Wuhan market on packages of frozen food.