The origin of the coronavirus: the mystery of patient zero

still no answer to the question when the coronavirus COVID-19 met for the first time with a man. The more people in the world infected, the harder it becomes to find “patient zero”.

the world health organization (who) admit that the first infection with the coronavirus was in December 2019. If all are true, the timeline, the origin and source of the outbreak can be transferred. But it is yet to be confirmed, said the Director of the European who regional office for Europe Hans Kluge in the film Naila Asker-zade “Threat virus. The vaccine” on TV channel “Russia 1”.

it is likely that there might be cases in November, admits the Professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry University of Kentucky Rebecca Dutch.

“as far As I know, China announced the virus on December 31. Of course, then there was infection,” she says.

According to her, cases of infection, apparently, began to appear in November-December. Travellers from Europe and the United States easily could have been infected in China and bring the infection back home. But nobody knew anything — it was not a serious symptom.

“Today, in hindsight, we know that may have been more before that, the unit that were not detected and were, apparently asymptomatic,” the ex-President of the world Association of doctors, Professor Leonid Eidelman (Israel).

the First case outside of China was diagnosed on January 13 in Thailand, he says. That is, it was time to localize the epidemic, and this, unfortunately, was not done.

But according to Professor Chinese Academy of social Sciences Xue Fuzi, the latest data from the UK and Japan, saying that the cases COVID-19 was recorded in September of 2019 or even earlier.

“This greatly complicates the situation, so I believe that the search for the so-called “patient zero”, the search for the origin of the virus Consumwill aboutsa additional months and even years,” he says.