Chinese Virus

Chinese Virus www.infralive.com 28 Infra LIVE April 15, 2020 shrimps, according to a document leaked to media. Wei Guixian is a 57 year old seafood merchant at the Huanan Market in Wuhan where the virus is suspected to have first made the jump from a bat to a human. She was identified by the Wall Street Journal as potentially Patient Zero; speaking to Chinese publica- tion The Paper (via News .com.au ), she described how she first started to feel ill on December 10, believ- ing she had caught a cold or maybe the flu. "I felt a bit tired, but not as tired as previous years," she said. "Every winter, I always suffer from the flu. So I thought it was the flu." The next day she walked to a small local clinic and got the usual treatment and an injection, before going back to work. When her symptoms persisted, she sought a second opinion at Wuhan's The Eleventh Hospital. "The doctor at The Eleventh hospital could not figure out what was wrong with me and gave me pills," she said. When these didn't help either, she returned to the first clinic to ask for more injec- tions. "By then I felt a lot worse and very uncomfortable," she said. that was observed on March 22, 2020. It was followed by nation- wide lockdown from March 24, 2020 for 21 days. The government has identified critical items required for treating the patients. It has also launched massive public campaign telling people “Dos & Donts” (see box-B at pg 43-44). China's first 27 patients The first person from the Wuhan market - where the coronavirus pandemic likely began - to test positive for the virus was a woman selling live 1 Hubei 6 Anhui 7 Jiangxi 8 Shandong 4 Zhejiang 5 Hunan 2 Guangdong 3 Henan 9 Jiangsu 10 Chongqing 31 Xizang 11 Beijing 12 Sichuan 13 Shanghai 14 Heilongjiang 15 Fujian 16 Hebei 17 Guangxi 18 Shaanxi 19 Yunnan 20 Hainan 21 Tianjin 22 Guizhou 23 Gansu 24 Shanxi 25 Liaoning 26 Jilin 27 Inner Mongolia 28 Xinjiang 29 Ningxia 30 Qinghai