We don't have CIA or KGB. Besides, China is under obligation to immediately report suspicious new ailments.
Of course , China have report , but you bias media said no.
An ex post epidemiological investigation indicates that the earliest known case symptoms occurred on December 1, 2019 [2] [221] [196]. According to a later recall from the outpatient doctor of Wuhan Youfu Hospital, on December 12, 2019, the hospital accepted a 69-year-old male merchant from the South China Seafood Market in Wuhan. After the CT examination was unsuccessful, the outpatient doctor had to advise him to go to other hospitals with better equipment [222]. Later research by scholars such as Huang Chaolin indicated that during the initial period of the epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concentrated suspected infected persons in Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital for isolation and collected samples and data. The earliest data samples have been collected on December 16, 2019 [ 223].
The emergency doctor of Wuhan Central Hospital sent a sample of alveolar lavage fluid to a third-party testing agency on December 24 after a 65-year-old patient suspected to be community-acquired pneumonia [Note 15] was treated with various antibiotics and was still ineffective. Guangzhou Weiyuan Gene Co., Ltd. performed a second-generation high-throughput sequencing (NGS) -based test to find the exact pathogen [224]. Guangzhou Weiyuan Gene Co., Ltd. in Huangpu, Guangzhou is the first laboratory known to analyze new coronavirus pathogens. The laboratory received the sample on December 24 and automatically interpreted the mNGS pathogenic microorganisms on December 26. The results showed that the SARS coronavirus had a similarity of about 94.5% [224] [225]. After a more detailed analysis, it was found that the virus is not identical to all known genomic information, and may be a new virus similar to Bat SARS-like coronavirus [224].
On December 26, 2019, Zhang Jixian, a respiratory and intensive medical doctor, first discovered and reported this pneumonia of unknown cause and suspected that the disease was an infectious disease [160].
On December 27, Guangzhou Weiyuan Gene Company assembled a nearly complete viral genome sequence and shared the data with the Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences [224]. The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences submitted the data to the Global Influenza Data Initiative's website on January 11. This analysis is the earliest date sample collected in this database [224].
On the evening of December 30, doctors such as Li Wenliang, Liu Wen, and Xie Linka disclosed the news related to the epidemic in an internal WeChat group [226] [227]. Wuhan Central Hospital sent a sample to the Beijing Boao Medical Laboratory on December 27. The test center sent the test report back to the hospital on December 30. The report listed "SARS coronavirus" as one of the results of "high confidence" positive indicators [228]. Ophthalmologist Li Wenliang of Wuhan Central Hospital published the test report circulated inside the hospital at 17:48 using WeChat to publish the news and test report photos of "7 cases of SARS diagnosed in South China fruit and seafood market" in class group [228] .
On December 30, the Wuhan Municipal Health and Health Committee's Medical Affairs and Medical Administration Department issued two documents below to reach rescue measures for pneumonia of unknown cause [Note 16] [229]. The document was circulated online in the evening [229]. On December 31, Wuhan CDC confirmed the documents to the media and issued a situation report [Note 17], and began to notify the public of the case, referring to what kind of pneumonia is being investigated [229] [230] [229]. On the other hand, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission published the "Wuhan Municipal Health Commission's Report on the Current Pneumonia Epidemic Situation in our City", stating that 27 cases have been found [231] [229]. The Government of the People's Republic of China also informed the World Health Organization on that day [232]. A large number of cases of visiting South China seafood market appeared in many hospitals in Wuhan in mid-late December [Note 18].
In the early morning of January 5th, Zhang Yongzhen's team at Fudan University detected a new SARS-like coronavirus from a sample in Wuhan and obtained the entire genome sequence of the virus [241] [221] [242]. On January 6, the China CDC launched a secondary emergency response [241]. On January 7, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and put forward requirements for epidemic prevention and control [243] [244]. On January 9th, the "Expert Group for Preliminary Evaluation of Viral Pneumonia Pathogen Detection Results" officially announced that the pathogen was a new type of coronavirus [241]. On January 15, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention turned into a first-level emergency response [245]. At 22:00 on January 19th, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission stated that no close contact was found among close contacts of confirmed cases, that is, no evidence of human-to-human transmission was found [246].
