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identical to a coronavirus described in 2016 as BtCoV4991. This virus was first described in a 2016 publication by Zheng-Li Shi’s team as one of only two betacoronaviruses collected from bat feces and swabs in the Tongguan mineshaft in Mojiang, Yunnan. Shockingly, the reason they studied this mine