That deserves it’s own thread.
It’s a virus of Chinese origin. A Chinese bat infected the Pangolin which went to the table of the Saudi man at a high end Chinese restaurant. The unique nature of his infection caused release of samples to various research labs for study. Meanwhile, the unique nature of transmission from bat to Pangolin remained and it was just a matter of time when live bats were allowed to be caged just above a cage of Pangolins in a market environment. One bat poop into he food dish of the Pangolin from an infected bat created the conditions for the animal to human transmission via the Pangolin.
Interesting it started in Saudi Arabia?