The first Covid case was a Wuhan animal market vendor and not an accountant who lived miles away as determined by the World Health Organization.
Rewriting the chronology of the pandemic - reports the New York Times - is the prestigious Science, thus rekindling the debate on the origins of the pandemic between the escape from the Wuhan laboratory to the contagion from animal to man.
Scientist Michael Worobey, an expert in tracing the evolution of viruses at the University of Arizona, noted discrepancies between the public information available but also through interviews conducted in China.
And he came to the conclusion that the seller's ties to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market and the first hospitalized patients suggest the virus is coming from the market.
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