If the type locality for Bungarus multicinctus wanghaotingi is Yuankiang, Yunnan Province, China, the closest spelling is Yuanjiang, near the Yuan River, Yunnan (spelled Yuan Jiang['river] which flows into Hanoi, North Vietnam). The closest point in Yunnan to Wuhan is about 500 miles, recalling that 2019-nCoV can remain viable on surfaces for 9 days. Thus, the range of the subspecies Bungarus multicinctus wanghaotingi comes into question.
We have already mentioned pharmacies as potential reservoirs due to TCM.
10 Feb 2020 China Stops Medicine Sales
Chinese cities try to flush out coronavirus patients by stopping cough medicine sales
'....Southern Guangdong Province, home to the tech hub Shenzhen that borders Hong Kong, has asked residents to register with their real names at medicine stores when they purchase so officials can follow up with them.'
However, the Chinese may has suspicions, because Guangdong Province has already been mentioned in this thread as collection points for snakes, and the Italians have the Shenzhen strain:
'The catPCA analysis on the sole 2019-nCoV sequences highlights some internal variability (Figure 2B), with two likely outliers identified in the genome EPI_ISL_406862 (collected in Germany) and EPI_ISL_406592 (collected in Shenzhen, China).'
(Ceraolo and Giorgi, Genomic Variance of the 2019-nCoV Coronavirus, op cit)
