Nepal, March 9 -- CoV-2, the causative agent of Covid-19, first appeared in Wuhan, China, it rapidly spread across nations and caused a global outbreak. Later, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a pandemic. So far, it has been widely accepted that the virus originated from bats. However, the exact medium through which it was transmitted to humans remains debatable. Some researchers believe the virus was artificially created or maintained within a laboratory setting and accidentally reached the community. Although the probability of this hypothesis is very minimal, it remains a possibility that cannot be entirely dismissed.

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