LONDON - A study by French scientists which suggests a man was infected with COVID-19 as early as Dec. 27, nearly a month before France confirmed its first cases, could be important in assessing when and where the new coronavirus emerged, experts said on Tuesday.
The results, published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, showed that one patient - a 42-year-old man born in Algeria, who had lived in France for many years and worked as a fishmonger - was infected with COVID-19"one month before the first reported cases in our country", they said."It's also possible there are more early cases to be found," WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a U.N. briefing in Geneva.
Cohen told French television on Monday it was too early to know if the patient, whose last trip to Algeria had been in August 2019, was France's"patient zero". They said the absence of a link with China and the lack of recent travel"suggest that the disease was already spreading among the French population at the end of December 2019".
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