Coronavirus outbreak originated from bats.

Unfortunately, there is insufficient publicly available evidence at the current time to accurately verify this statement.

Unfortunately, there is insufficient publicly available evidence at the current time to accurately verify this statement.As per the COVID-19 Situation Summary report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on 20 February 2020, the new virus is a betacoronavirus, like MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, both of which have originated from bats. It stated that earlier many of the COVID-19 patients in the Wuhan, China had some connection to seafood and live animal market. It said that earlier it spread from animal to person now it has been spreading from person to person. Also, they are not sure about how or where people in other destinations became infected.

Zhang Ming, the Chinese Ambassador to Europe, in an interview, said that as per the recent testing done by China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus was likely to come from wild animals and added that the bats could host a variety of viruses. He mentioned that the transmission modes of the virus are yet to be discovered.

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a lot of potentially dangerous misinformation. For reliable advice on COVID-19 including symptoms, prevention and available treatment, please refer to the World Health Organisation or your national healthcare authority.