In Hunt for Covid-19 Origin, Patient Zero Points to Second Wuhan Market


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World Health Organization investigators are seeking information about a second food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan after the first officially confirmed Covid-19 case, dubbed patient zero, told them his parents had shopped there. Chinese authorities have said since early last year that the first confirmed victim was a Wuhan resident surnamed Chen who fell sick on Dec. 8, 2019, and had no connection to the Huanan seafood market, which was tied to many of the early infections. That case, and more recent evidence, led a WHO team probing the pandemic’s origins to conclude that the virus might have...