HEALTH

 It wasn't until late December that Chinese officials realized they had a new virus on their hands but even then, China's government clamped down on sharing information about it with the public, according to The Wall Street Journal. A person believed to be the first ever human infected with COVID-19 has broken her silence, Wei Guixian is a 57 year old seafood merchant at the Huanan Market in Wuhan where the virus is suspected to have first made the jump from a bat to human, she described how she first started to feel ill on December 10, believing she had caught a cold or maybe the flu. "I felt a bit tired but not as tired as previous years, every winter, I always suffer from the flu, so i thought it was the flu" she said. The next day she walked to a small local clinic and got the usual treatment and an injection, before going back to work, the first steps in a global pandemic that has infected over half a million and killed more than 25,000 so far. When her symp...