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Correction: No research proves deadly Coronavirus came from eating bat soup

A frozen video where a woman was consuming bat soup. The video was widely circulated in social media. [Image: Mirror]

The Standard Digital on February 3, 2020, ran story by the Daily Mirror titled “Chinese virus could have been spread by bat soup after disturbing footage emerges.” The article speculated that the Coronavirus, officially referred to us COVID-19 may have originated from a bat soup after a video footage of a young woman consuming bat soup circulated online.

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