Comment by nradov

If a virus essentially identical to the original wild type SARS-CoV-2 is found in a wild animal population that would be fairly strong evidence against the lab leak hypothesis, although not an absolute disproof. Researchers have looked and not found such, so it remains an open question.

So far the closest we've come is a bat virus in Laos but it has some significant genetic differences.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2