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Patients infected with COVID-19 wait to be transferred from Wuhan No. 5 Hospital to the newly-built Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan, China on March 3, 2020 (AFP/Getty Images)

Footprints of the coronavirus: How it came to Canada and went around the world

Terry Glavin: Genome samples reveal the pathogen’s deadly journey, and unlike the leaders of certain global superpowers, the science doesn’t lie.