This is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information as it becomes available, in addition to updated guidance. COVID-19 is a betacoronavirus, like MERS and SARs, both of which have their origins in bats. The sequences from U.S. patients are similar to the one that China initially posted, suggesting a likely single, recent emergence of this virus from an animal reservoir.

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