Who was the very first COVID patient? Who was the so unlucky fellow who caught the coronavirus and started to spread it? Researchers had always been asking themselves these questions. The first COVID outbreak started in Wuhan, a city of about 11 million residents from the Hubei Chinese province.
Newsweek.com reveals that a top official from the WHO (World Health Organization) named Peter Embarek is placing his bet on a lab researcher from Wuhan to be the first person infected by the coronavirus. The worker was supposedly infected by a bat.
Bats are to blame for transmitting the coronavirus to humans
Peter Ben Embarek led a mission to investigate the origins of COVID-19. He said, as quoted by Newsweek.com:
An employee who was infected in the field by taking samples falls under one of the probable hypotheses. This is where the virus jumps directly from a bat to a human. In that case, it would then be a laboratory worker instead of a random villager or other person who has regular contact with bats. So it is actually in the probable category.
Once again, the long-lasting theory that the SARS CoV-2 virus was transmitted to humans from bats is confirmed by Embarek’s statements. Other theories included transmission from pangolins, while some conspiracy theorists are relying on the scenario that the coronavirus was deliberately created in the lab by an evil human mind. However, there seems to be no compelling evidence for the last scenario.
Let’s not also forget about another hypothesis for the origins of COVID invoked by the WHO, which included transmission from animals to other animals and ultimately to humans.
We’re all eager to uncover the secrets of the COVID pandemic, and it should be only a matter of time until all doubts will disappear.