{"id":103955,"date":"2020-03-19T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/reports-chinas-first-covid-19-patient-not-linked-to-seafood-market"},"modified":"2020-03-19T06:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:42:30","slug":"reports-chinas-first-covid-19-patient-not-linked-to-seafood-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/reports-chinas-first-covid-19-patient-not-linked-to-seafood-market","title":{"rendered":"Reports: China\u2019s first COVID-19 patient not linked to seafood market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reports-chinas-first-covid-19-patient-not-linked-to-seafood-market.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for patient 1; Mr. Chen :<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 24, the Lancet, an independent medical journal, published a study showing Wuhan\u2019s first patient was not connected to the seafood market. A joint research team representing China\u2019s Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Huanan Agricultural College and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research have also said the seafood market is not the source of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/<\/a>\u2026\/Reports-Chinas-first-C\u2026\/1201582811760\/<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Feb. 27 (UPI) \u2014 Chinese authorities said the first known patient of the new coronavirus in Wuhan had no connection to Huanan Seafood Market, which authorities have previously said is ground zero for COVID-19, according to Taiwanese press reports.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Broadcasting Co. and Liberty Times reported Thursday that China\u2019s first patient had shown symptoms of COVID-19 as early as Dec. 8. Chinese authorities have previously said the outbreak began on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention published in Taiwanese news media marks the first time Chinese authorities have provided an alternative explanation of the source of the deadly outbreak.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/reports-chinas-first-covid-19-patient-not-linked-to-seafood-market\">Continue reading \u201cReports: China\u2019s first COVID-19 patient not linked to seafood market\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for patient 1; Mr. Chen : On Jan. 24, the Lancet, an independent medical journal, published a study showing Wuhan\u2019s first patient was not connected to the seafood market. A joint research team representing China\u2019s Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Huanan Agricultural College and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research have also said the seafood [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}