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Virus Outbreak: PRC health expert defends virus delay PANDEMIC UNLEASHED: It was not until Jan. 20 last year that China confirmed COVID-19 could be passed among humans; by then the situation had spiraled out of control Bloomberg One of China’s top scientists has defended the nation’s delays in raising a global alarm in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, saying officials were initially unsure whether the pathogen was infectious among humans because close contacts of the first patients did not appear to fall sick. After the mysterious pneumo...

11:34 AM MYT A worker in a protective suit is seen at the closed seafood market in Wuhan, Hubei province, China in this file photo from Jan 10, 2020. - Reuters BEIJING (Bloomberg): One of China's top scientists defended the country's delays in raising a global alarm in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, saying officials were initially unsure whether the pathogen was infectious among humans because close contacts of the first patients didn't appear to fall sick. In the first days of 2020, after the mysterious pneumonia cluster emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Chinese expe...

The comments from one of China's top scientists are the most detailed public statements yet from a Chinese official describing circumstances at the start of the crisis.