The coronavirus outbreak started in China at the end of and since then has claimed the lives of more than , people across the globe. The Chinese science lab in Wuhan which has been doing experiments on coronavirus was given £ 3 million from the US government. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is a level four biosafety lab, which is the highest level and precautions must be taken to stop diseases being transmitted to humans.
This comes as senior government sources in the UK have revealed an accident at the Wuhan laboratory could be how the horrifying disease started.
One possibility is that scientists at the research center could have become infected after being sprayed with blood containing the virus and then passed it on.
The current hypotheses is that the virus was transmitted to humans from a live animal market in Wuhan.
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