PMC:7151644 / 30511-31009 JSONTXT

{"project":"2_test","denotations":[{"id":"32296543-32015508-144433931","span":{"begin":282,"end":286},"obj":"32015508"},{"id":"32296543-32015507-144433932","span":{"begin":300,"end":304},"obj":"32015507"}],"text":"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."}