The first known case of covid-19 was found in a saleswoman working in the Wuhan market in China and not in an accountant who was not previously associated with the market, a fact that had strengthened speculation that the new coronavirus may have leaked from a laboratory, according to US research published in the journal Science.
The accountant’s symptoms, which are believed to be the first case of the new coronavirus according to a report by the World Health Organization, actually started on December 16 and not on December 8 as originally reported, said Michael Warobi, head of the Department of Developmental Bio at the University of Arizona.
The confusion was caused by a dental problem faced by the 41-year-old man.
“His symptoms came after several cases of workers in the Juan market, which makes a saleswoman who worked in a fish market in the market, the first known case, with the symptoms appearing in her on December 11,” he added.
Moreover, the first patients with symptoms were also associated with the market and specifically with the western part where raccoon dogs (overnight dogs) were kept in cages.
According to Warobi, this fact as well as the analysis of all the first cases of covid-19 in Uhan clearly support the theory that the new coronavirus came from animals.
Asked by the New York Times, Peter Dazak, a member of the WHO team of experts who went to Uhan in January 2021 to investigate the origin of the pandemic, admitted that “the date of December 8 was wrong.”
Two years after the outbreak of the pandemic, the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus remains a mystery, in the absence of clear evidence, and a source of great tension between China and the United States.
A joint China-WHO report released earlier this year said the most likely scenario was for the virus to be transmitted to humans through animals.
Worobi belonged to a group of 15 scientists who in May published an article in the journal Science asking that the virus be leaked seriously from a laboratory in Uhan.
Today he writes that his research “provides solid evidence that the pandemic came from a living animal” found in the Wuhan market.
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