Covid-19 patient zero found! The Covid-19 virus appeared as a result of evolution in the body of a Chinese miner who fell ill with SARS in 2012. Samples of this virus were sent to a laboratory in Wuhan, from where the leak occurred, said Jonathan Latham, executive director of the American organization Bioscience Resource Project. Latham said that the virus can produce "evolutionary leaps" and go through many mutations, being in the body of one person, RIA News reports with reference to the Telegraph. According to Latham, in 2012, six miners who were cleaning up the remains of bat droppings in a mine in the Chinese province of Yunnan were diagnosed with a "pneumonia-like" illness. Three of them died, others stayed in the hospital for up to six months. A year after the deaths, scientists from Wuhan found in that place the RaTG13 bat coronavirus, 96% identical to the virus that causes COVID-19. Samples of the virus that affected the miners were sent to researchers in Wuhan, where the COVID-19 outbreak was reported. The further history you know .