The new report was produced by a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

It concluded Covid-19 most likely emerged in India or Bangladesh, but also lists Australia, Russia, Serbia, Italy, Greece, USA and the Czech Republic as possible starting points.

The study attempts to find the origin of coronavirus by tracking minuscule variations in the virus’s DNA every time it replicates itself.  

By working back through these mutations, they concluded the virus originated in one of the nine countries listed above.