The BBC reported that a patient in his 70’s, recovering from a stroke at home, was patient “No. Zero,” or the first patient who the novel coronavirus infected in Wuhan.
He had symptoms on December 1, 2019, a week before the December 8 case that Wuhan reported in the past. He never went to the seafood market, which the Chinese government blamed as the origin of the virus.
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Excerpt in Chinese:
中国正在努力遏制新冠病毒肺炎的蔓延，但这场疫情究竟从何而起仍迷雾重重。一名曾参与救治目前公众所知的首例新冠病患的医生对BBC说，这名病患是一名70多岁患病在家的脑梗塞患者。
这是该名早期病患的信息首次获得公开。他被认为于12月1日发病，比武汉官方此前通报的12月8日发病的患者提早了近一周。值得关注的是，他没有华南海鲜市场的暴露史。
Source: BBC Chinese, February 18, 2020
https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-51540821