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First known COVID-19 case was vendor at Wuhan market: Study

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The first confirmed case of symptomatic COVID-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at an animal market in China's Wuhan. The study, published in the medical journal Science, states the first patient worked at the Huanan live animal market. Notably, Wuhan city is where the coronavirus was first reported in 2019 and later became a pandemic. Researcher suggests pandemic began from Wuhan market