ICMR research on Covid-19 finds presence of ” bats coronavirus”

At the same time, those from Karnataka, Chandigarh, Punjab, Telangana Gujarat, and Odisha came out negative. She also added, The reverse polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests and sequencing were used for the confirmation of the findings. Recent studies claim that china’s wet market in Wuhan is the origin of the virus where bats, pigs, and other mammals are sold openly.

However, researchers are continually trying to trace the source, and many reports have reported the connection of the pandemic with bats as of now. Only time will tell which animal is responsible for the spread. The mishandling of animals has been one of the leading causes of the enormous harm to the ecosystem as a whole for years.

The origin story of the coronavirus seems to be the globally famous Huanan seafood market in Wuhan was infected from a deadly virus from an animal. Stock footage of pangolins and bats have made it to the controversies related to the possible cause of the virus spread. The fact that the virus has also been detected in a tiger at a New York Zoo has left the scientists to conduct further research on the nature of the illness.