{"id":39072,"date":"2021-11-19T23:08:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/first-covid-patient-in-wuhan-was-at-animal-market-study-finds"},"modified":"2021-11-19T23:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:08:44","slug":"first-known-covid-case-was-wuhan-market-vendor-says-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39072","title":{"rendered":"First known Covid case was Wuhan market vendor, says scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claim will reignite debate about origins of pandemic, a continuing source of tension between US and China<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The chronology is at odds with a timeline laid out in an influential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/who-convened-global-study-of-origins-of-sars-cov-2-china-part-annexes.pdf?sfvrsn=3065bcd8_5\">World Health Organization<\/a> (WHO) report, which suggested an accountant with no apparent link to the Hunan market was the first known case.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/first-covid-patient-in-wuhan-was-at-animal-market-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim will reignite debate about origins of pandemic, a continuing source of tension between US and ChinaThe 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1109,"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":[41,50,1066,914,512,916,299,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39072","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\/1109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39073,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39072\/revisions\/39073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}