{"id":15761,"date":"2020-03-13T15:39:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/13\/first-covid-19-case-happened-in-november-china-government-records-show-report"},"modified":"2020-03-13T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:39:38","slug":"first-covid-19-case-happened-in-november-china-government-records-show-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15761","title":{"rendered":"First Covid-19 case happened in November, China government records show &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earliest case detected on 17 November, weeks before authorities acknowledged new virus, says Chinese media<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/13\/coronavirus-live-updates-uk-us-australia-italy-europe-school-shutdown-share-markets-sport-events-cancelled-latest-update-news\">Coronavirus: lives updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first case of someone suffering from Covid-19 can be traced back to 17 November, according to media reports on unpublished Chinese government data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/3074991\/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back\">The report<\/a>, in the South China Morning Post, said Chinese authorities had identified at least 266 people who contracted the virus last year and who came under medical surveillance, and the earliest case was 17 November \u2013 weeks before authorities announced the emergence of the new virus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/13\/first-covid-19-case-happened-in-november-china-government-records-show-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earliest case detected on 17 November, weeks before authorities acknowledged new virus, says Chinese mediaCoronavirus: lives updatesThe first case of someone suffering from Covid-19 can be traced back to 17 November, according to media reports on unpub&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,918,50,1069,914,512,916,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1082"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15773,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions\/15773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}