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First COVID-19 case could have emerged in China in Oct 2019 - study

Workers in PPE spray the ground with a disinfectant in the Baishazhou market during a visit of the World Health Organization (WHO) team in Wuhan, Hubei province. [Reuters]

The virus that causes Covid-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new study showed on Friday.

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