But Wuhan was accused of acting too slowly in the early stages of the outbreak amid fears of disrupting the economy or displeasing China's leadership in Beijing. Critics say media censorship and the silencing of whistle-blowers gave the virus more time to spread undetected.
The city still restricts access to locations like the Huanan market, which was linked to the first identified cluster of infections in December. “If you don't allow people to visit these places, you give people the impression you have something to hide,” said Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington who studies the politics behind China's health issues.China rejects conspiracy theories surrounding the coronavirus, including claims without evidence that a specialist virology institute in Wuhan manufactured it.
“I agree with the general idea that the virus jumped into a human before the Wuhan market,” said David Irwin, professor of medicine and pathobiology at the University of Toronto. “They may have been a trader that had been exposed either directly to the virus in a host animal or interacted with farmers or other traders outside Wuhan.”
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