The coronavirus is a kind of virus that mutates (changes) very fast. It’s said it comes from wild animals and its origin is China because they’re used to eating wild animals (like bats, pangolins…). Actually people think the animal which transmitted first the virus to a human was a pangolin (an ant-eater family species). The coronavirus has existed for more than 30 years but it stayed confined in China. The reason of the spreading of it is because the more often commercial transactions and, therefore, business travelling to China in this last decade and also the more habitual habits from Chinese to go on holiday to other countries.
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