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WHO WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO CATCH COVID-19? - REPORT


THE REPORT ALSO CLAIMS THAT WIV RESEARCHERS WERE DEVELOPING COVID-LIKE DISEASES
IN NOVEMBER 2019.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Published: JUNE 18, 2023 00:52

Updated: JUNE 18, 2023 07:55

SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (illustrative).
(photo credit: PIXABAY)
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The first people to catch coronavirus were three researchers at the Wuhan
Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, according to a recent Substack article
report from Tuesday citing US government sources.



The report states that the first people include WIV researcher Ben Hu, who led
the institute’s research on SARS-like coronaviruses that increased the viruses'
infectiousness. The other two researchers suspected to have leaked the virus are
Yu Ping and Yan Zhu. 



The report also claims that WIV researchers were developing COVID-like diseases
in November 2019 and had been working with "the closest relatives of
SARS-CoV-2." However, the report admits that it is unknown who in the US
government had access to the information on the three WIV researchers.





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The US State Department stated shortly after President Joe Biden took office in
January 2021 that the government has evidence "to believe that several
researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first
identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with COVID-19."




OTHER SOURCES HAVE CLAIMED DIFFERENT ORIGINS OF THE VIRUS

There have been other reports that claim that the first person to contract the
virus was someone different.


SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind COVID-19 (Illustrative). (credit:
fusion medical animation/unsplash)

For example, the South China Morning Post reported on November 2019 that the
first person to contract it was a 55-year-old in the Hubei province, citing
government records at the time.



Another example would be in a study conducted two years after the aforementioned
report, where the journal Science concluded that the first person to catch the
virus was a vendor in an animal market - also located in Wuhan.


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