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. The putative patient zero met the WHO investigators during their recent four-week visit to Wuhan, and told them that his parents had visited another local community food market, according to three team members. “We need more studies of the early cases," Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO team leader, told the Journal. The report will call for further scrutiny of those earliest cases and potential cases—including the putative patient zero and his relatives, according to WHO team members. “There is clear evidence of simultaneous transmission of the virus in other places outside the market," Thea Fischer, a Danish epidemiologist on the WHO team, told reporters in Wuhan.

Source: Mint February 26, 2021 11:33 UTC