‘First Covid-19 cases in Wuhan may be linked to imported food’

People ride bicycles on a street in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on September 29,2020, as the city continues its return to normality after being ground zero for the COVID-19 coronavirus earlier this year. (Photo by STR/ AFP)/ China OUT

BEIJING: The possibility that the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province, was caused by imported seafood contaminated with the coronavirus cannot be ruled out, a top public health researcher said.

Although the earliest cases in Wuhan were linked to a seafood market in the city, experts have said that did not prove the virus originated from the market.