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We miscalculated identities of several genes, and the corrected Table 1 should be as follows:
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Li, X., Song, Y., Wong, G. et al. Bat origin of a new human coronavirus: there and back again. Sci. China Life Sci. 63, 461–462 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-020-1645-7
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