Russia's COVID-19 strain did not come from China.

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Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Life Sciences (CLS) and their colleagues from the Higher School of Economics (HSE), Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza (RII) in St. Petersburg and the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS (IITP RAS) in Moscow undertook the first study of COVID-19 genomic epidemiology in Russia. The researchers performed genetic analysis of 211 virus samples taken from patients in Russia between March 11 and April 23. Their findings confirm the assumption that COVID-19 made its way into Russia from Europe in late February and early March. A preprint of the research paper was published in the medRxiv database.

skoltech.ru/en/2020/07/russ...

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Backs up my reply to mutations in this thread.

healthunlocked.com/blf/post...

[Badbessie in reply to 2greys]

I would agree. The more people the virus effects the greater chance of mutations.