The first person infected with COVID-19 was the shopping center in Uhana, found out a scientist from the United States. Previously, the first was the man who lived 30 km from the market, but, as a more thorough analysis showed, his early symptoms were caused by problems with teeth. This conclusion came the authors of the American study, which was published in the journal Science.
“The virus did not come from another part of the wustard to the” Juan “market. The evidence is quite convincingly suggest that the virus appeared on the market and after that leaked to the areas around him,” said CNN author’s evolutionary biologist Michael Warobi.
The authors of the study compiled a detailed schedule of all documented cases of SARS-COV-2 even before the pandemic was declared. Most infected worked in the “Juan” market or lived near him.
Wardobi carefully studied the case of a 41-year accountant, presumably infected with coronavirus on December 8, 2019. The man lived 30 km from the market and in early December there was not there. This case was previously brought as evidence that the pandemic began not from the market and the virus was already spread somewhere else. However, the analysis of hospital records showed that poor well-being was actually caused by dental problems. The symptoms of COVID-19 appeared in a man only on December 16, and he was hospitalized on December 22. “This shows that it was infected as a result of transmission of the virus among residents after the infection began to spread from the market,” the scientist notes.
The first famous person infected with COVID-19, turned out to be merged from the very market of seafood. According to documents, the symptoms appeared on December 11, 2019. Analysis of other early cases of infection showed that they were all associated with the market.
“What many of the more than 100 infected COVID-19 in December without an established epidemiological connection with the market, however, lived in close proximity to it – noteworthy and convincing evidence that the transfer of infection in the community began in the market “, – Stresses Warobi.
Before the publication, the experts of the Science magazine carefully studied the work of Warobi. One of the WHO researchers, the president of the company for protection against infectious diseases EcoHealth Alliance Peter Daszak, noted that the conclusions do not contradict the known data: “… everything that Wardobi says about the case of December 8, coincides with what we watched in Uhana in WHO investigation time – Early cases were concentrated around the market, and doctors worked with the estimated date on the beginning of the disease. They just made a mistake with the accountant, he appealed to the hospital for another reason. Thus, the first famous patient with COVID-19 was the Huanan market worker, and Not an accountant who lived near one of the campuses of the laboratory in Uhana. “
Daszak noted that the WHO has enough evidence indicating markets and farms as sources of origin of the virus. Separately they look not too convincing, but together form a rather unambiguous picture of the natural origin of the virus, he concluded.