Editing COVID-19 — Origins: The Laboratory Leak Hypothesis (section)

==== Geographic Coincidence ====
The pandemic began in Wuhan — the same city that houses China's premier bat coronavirus research laboratory. The WIV, under Dr. Shi Zhengli, had been collecting and studying bat coronaviruses from Yunnan Province (approximately 1,500 km from Wuhan) for over a decade. The probability of a novel bat coronavirus emerging naturally in the specific city that contains the world's leading bat coronavirus laboratory is itself a statistical argument for the lab hypothesis, though not proof of it.