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First known Covid case was Wuhan market vendor, says scientist
Claim will reignite debate about origins of pandemic, a continuing source of tension between US and China
The first known Covid-19 case was a vendor at the live-animal market in Wuhan, according to a scientist who has scrutinised public accounts of the earliest cases in China.
The chronology is at odds with a timeline laid out in an influential World Health Organization (WHO) report, which suggested an accountant with no apparent link to the Hunan market was the first known case.