Hong Kong: Amid global efforts to combat the coronavirus epidemic, a recent medical test report revealed that the disease is being spread to humans from an endangered species that looks like a scaly anteater and that is also considered as a delicacy Chinese cuisine.
...Did pangolins spark coronavirus? This Chinese report says so
The medical study by South China Agricultural University emphasizes that strain of coronavirus spreading in humans has 99 % similarity to that of found in Pangolins