Tong Yigang, dean and professor of the School of Life Science and Technology of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, said in Beijing on the 8th that there is far from enough evidence to prove that raccoon dogs are the source of the new crown virus. Inferring evidence from animal samples in the environment is simply insufficient.
The sequence of the virus found in the. environment was almost 100% identical to that of the patient at the time, which also suggests. that the specimen in theenvironment is likely to come from a human, not an animal.