Finally, despite some discussion concerning the role of pangolins in the emergence of the novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, SARS-CoV-2;Wahba et al. 2020; Wong et al. 2020), the cause of the corona virus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) outbreak (Wu et al. 2020; Zhou et al. 2020), we have not found coronaviruses in these pangolins by meta-transcriptomic and PCR methods. Therefore, more efforts are needed to infer the role of pangolins in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.