Media reports revealed that the first person who has been infected with the newly emerging coronavirus in the world is a 57-year-old woman who works as a seller of shrimp in the Chinese province of Wuhan.
Reports stated that the woman was infected on December 10, thinking that it is a seasonal flu, and caused the transmission of infection to 27 people, then the disease spread in the city and the world.
These reports are contradictory to what was reported in the Chinese newspaper "China China Morning Post", earlier, quoting government data, that the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the world dates back to mid-November, and it is for a man who is 55 years old, The source of the emerging virus is Hubei Province, to which Wuhan belongs, and this case was discovered and reported on November 17. The newspaper did not reveal the fate of this person who says that it is the first case of the virus, whether it died from illness or is still alive, and whether it had recovered or is still being treated from the emerging virus, adding that the doctors did not realize at the time that they were dealing with a disease New until late December.
Whereas, the WHO stated earlier that the first case of infection recorded in China was on the eighth of last December.