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Where did the coronavirus come from?

Steve Evans
Updated April 5 2021 - 6:50am, first published 5:00am
A Wuhan market security guard at the start of the pandemic. Picture: Shutterstock
A Wuhan market security guard at the start of the pandemic. Picture: Shutterstock

It would be nice to think that identifying the source of the epidemic which has ravaged the planet would be solely about the science - but it's not: politics has intruded.

Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."