{"id":19122,"date":"2020-06-09T17:43:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T08:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/coronavirus-may-have-been-in-wuhan-in-august-study-suggests"},"modified":"2020-06-10T00:17:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:17:53","slug":"coronavirus-may-have-been-in-wuhan-in-august-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19122","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus may have been in Wuhan in August, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research finds rise in hospital car park usage and web searches for \u2018diarrhoea\u2019 and \u2018cough\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coronavirus may have been present and spreading in Wuhan as early as August last year, according to a study that analysed satellite imagery of car parks outside major hospitals and search engine data.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42669767\">study<\/a>, by researchers from Harvard medical school, Boston University of Public Health and Boston children\u2019s hospital, looked at images captured between January 2018 and April 2020 and found a \u201csteep increase\u201d in vehicle counts starting in August 2019 and peaking in December 2019. Between September and October, five of the six hospitals observed had their highest daily volume of cars in the period analysed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/09\/coronavirus-may-have-been-in-wuhan-in-august-study-suggests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research finds rise in hospital car park usage and web searches for \u2018diarrhoea\u2019 and \u2018cough\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCoronavirus may have been present and spreading in Wuhan as early as August last year, according to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,1069,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/19122","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19136,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19122\/revisions\/19136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}