Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : Nearby a market in Wuhan in August 2019.
According to the government data seen by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), a Hong Kong-based English newspaper, a 55-year-old patient from Hubei is the first person to have contracted COVID-19 on 17 November 2019.
Of the first nine cases to be reported in November 2019 including five women and four men, none has been confirmed as being "patient zero". They were all aged between 39 and 79 but it is unknown how many are residents of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei and the epicentre of the outbreak.
It is possible that there were reported cases dating back even earlier than those seen by SCMP.
The first confirmed covid case according to the National Health and Medical Commission of the Communist Party of China is recorded on 8 December 2019.
A report published in medical journal The Lancet by Chinese doctors from Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, which treated some of the earliest patients, put the date of the first known infection at 1 December 2019.
Scientists are keen to identify the so-called "patient zero", who could help them trace the source of virus SARS-CoV-2, which is generally thought to have jumped from possibly a bat via an unidentified animal (intermediate host) to humans.
Web Ref :
Coronavirus : China's first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to 17 November 2019, Josephine Ma, South China Morning Post,
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back, 13 March 2020
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : Nearby a market in Wuhan in August 2019.
According to the government data seen by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), a Hong Kong-based English newspaper, a 55-year-old patient from Hubei is the first person to have contracted COVID-19 on 17 November 2019.
Of the first nine cases to be reported in November 2019 including five women and four men, none has been confirmed as being "patient zero". They were all aged between 39 and 79 but it is unknown how many are residents of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei and the epicentre of the outbreak.
It is possible that there were reported cases dating back even earlier than those seen by SCMP.
The first confirmed covid case according to the National Health and Medical Commission of the Communist Party of China is recorded on 8 December 2019.
A report published in medical journal The Lancet by Chinese doctors from Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, which treated some of the earliest patients, put the date of the first known infection at 1 December 2019.
Scientists are keen to identify the so-called "patient zero", who could help them trace the source of virus SARS-CoV-2, which is generally thought to have jumped from possibly a bat via an unidentified animal (intermediate host) to humans.
Web Ref :
Coronavirus : China's first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to 17 November 2019, Josephine Ma, South China Morning Post,
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back, 13 March 2020
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