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A woman walks past a closed market in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where Covid-19 was first identified. Getty
Covid origin probed as China tests thousands of Wuhan blood samples
200,000 samples highlighted by World Health Organisation as clue to when virus first crossed into humans
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The National
13 October, 2021