A shrimp seller at the live animal food market believed to be at the centre of the coronavirus pandemic has been identified as one of the first victims of the virus.
The 57-year-old woman, named by Wall Street Journal as Wei Guixian, is believed to be "patient zero" - the first person to test positive for Covid-19.
Wei was selling shrimp at Huanan Seafood Market in the central city of Wuhan when she developed what she thought was a cold on December 10, Chinese outlet The Paper report.
So she walked to a small local clinic for treatment and then went back to work which may have spread the disease which has so far killed 759 in the UK.