New research claims to have pinpointed the very first Covid cases - 10 years ago. It is believed that coronavirus may have originated from labourers who worked in a Chinese mine nearly a decade before the pandemic began.
Dr Jonathan Latham claims to have discovered that Covid-19 may have evolved in the body of infected workers. He says this happened in April 2012 when six mineworkers were admitted to hospital with coronavirus-like symptoms while working in the Mojiang mines, in south-central Yunnan in China. READ MORE: UK faces an 'uncertain' winter with possible 'multi-strain flu' Three eventually died after working in a bat-infested cave, the Mirror reports.