The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation on Wednesday dismissed news reports suggesting Thailand was the source of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The department said it had tested various types of wildlife and found the claims were untrue.
The department was responding to Denmark's daily newspaper Politiken that published an article on Monday questioning whether Chatuchak Market was "the place that brought the coronavirus to Wuhan".
The article quoted a Danish epidemiologist who was on a recent WHO fact-finding mission to China, as saying that Southeast Asia could be the source of the virus.
The department from time to time randomly tests all types of animals sold at Chatuchak Market, both imported and local, and had not found any animals infected with Covid-19 as claimed.
The last time the department conducted tests on animals at Chatuchak was on March 19 last year and no signs of the new coronavirus were found.
A Russian news agency reported there are bats in Thailand with a new coronavirus that matches the one that causes Covid-19.
The new virus was found in the blood of five bats in eastern Thailand, the report said.
The government insisted the coronavirus found in the bats doesn't cause any illnesses in humans despite its similarity to Covid-19.
