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China · 3:54 AM UTCFirst COVID-19 case could have emerged in China in Oct 2019 - study

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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