We confirm that #SARSCoV2 jumped into humans ~Oct/Nov 2019 in China. The emerging genetic diversity of the virus we found in many countries recapitulates its global diversity, indicating that several countries were seeded multiple times, sometimes early on in the pandemic.
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— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) May 5, 2020