10 February 2021. About 90 people were hospitalized with Covid-19-like symptoms in central China in the two months before the disease was first identified in Wuhan in late 2019. The World Health Organization’s mission to Wuhan said the coronavirus most likely spread naturally to humans through an animalhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/possible-early-covid-19-cases-in-china-emerge-during-who-mission-11612996225