![]() ![]() The health authorities had been informed, and medical experts from Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, "a hospital designated to treat infectious diseases" came to transfer six of the seven patients. On this day and the previous, three similar cases arrived at Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, all associated with the seafood market. 27 December First novel disease report Īccording to news reports in February 2020- Workers Daily, Global Times-at the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine and following the report from Doctor Zhang Jixian, the hospital immediately alerted the local CDC, Wuhan Jianghan Disease Prevention and Control Center, however, the report of 22 January 2020 from the Chinese CDC seems to claim this contact falling on 29 December. ![]() According to the GenBank record, the sample was obtained 23 December, whereas Ren et al., Chin Med J, 2020 sets the date to 24 December 2019. 24 December Īn unresolved clinical case sparks off the first scientific involvement: a bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BAL) sample was sent from Wuhan Central Hospital to Vision Medicals (广州微远基因科技) in Guangzhou, a private company specializing in metagenomic massive parallel sequencing analysis. 16 December Īs of February 2020, the first documented COVID-19 hospital admissions worldwide were dated to 16 December 2019 in Wuhan. Both patients had direct exposure to the Huanan Market. The fifth and sixth cases that were later confirmed by laboratories first felt symptoms on 15 December. Their results were confirmed two of these three had no direct exposure to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, while the other did. These patients are known because they became hospitalized on 16 December and thus sampled. Symptoms of three more cases began on 10 December, which were later confirmed by laboratories. This was the onset of the first 41 people who were tested and later confirmed positive for COVID-19, as reported by the Wuhan City Health Committee and the WHO in 2020. Two antibody studies in the United States suggested a presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States in December 2019. His family was unaffected, and no epidemiological link was found between him and the other laboratory-confirmed cases as of 2 January. The man had not been to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Symptoms of the index case, or patient zero, began on 1 December. Since then, the head of the WHO COVID-19 origins investigative team, Peter Ben Embarek, has stated that the Chinese authorities exerted pressure on the WHO report conclusions, and that he in fact considers an infection via a researcher's field samples to be a "likely" scenario. However, a WHO report states "introduction through a laboratory incident was considered to be an extremely unlikely pathway". The report added weight to calls for a broader probe into the theory that the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from a laboratory. intelligence obtained that three researchers working at the BSL-4 laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms. On, The Wall Street Journal reported that newly disclosed U.S. On 13 March 2020, the South China Morning Post reported that Chinese government records suggest that the first case of infection with COVID-19 could be traced back to a 55-year-old Hubei resident on 17 November. See also: Investigations into the origin of COVID-19Īccording to an ABC news report, the American National Center for Medical Intelligence shared intelligence regarding a potential respiratory disease in Wuhan. ![]()
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