A timeline of COVID-19's early weeks in China, beginning with the emergence of the first patient on or around Nov. 18.
The novel coronavirus that is later named SARS-CoV-2 infects a human for the first time. Whoever this patient is, he or she was probably not admitted to a hospital — and may not have experienced any symptoms of what became known as COVID-19.A 41-year-old accountant from Wuhan reports health problems that he attributes to a dental problem related to baby teeth he has not lost, despite his age.
He later says he may have become infected with the coronavirus while being treated for his dental problem. He lived about 19 miles south of the Huanan Market and had no connection to it.Various people associated with the Huanan Market become the first patients hospitalized with a mysterious disease that resembles pneumonia. They are treated at Wuhan Union Hospital.
Medical personnel wearing protective suits work in the infectious diseases department at Wuhan Union Hospital.A seafood vendor in the Huanan Market develops symptoms consistent with the disease that becomes known as COVID-19. She visits a private clinic at the market and encounters other possible COVID-19 patients there.
A portion of the Huanan Market in Wuhan. A seafood vendor there developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 on Dec. 11, 2019.A 65-year-old deliveryman at the Huanan Market reports symptoms of COVID-19, though the records are unclear and this may have occurred two days later.
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