First Covid-19 case could have hit China in October 2019: Study

Critics say the deletion of the sequencing data from the early cases of Covid-19 in China was further evidence that the country was trying to cover up the origins of Covid-19.

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.