According to the South China Morning Post , the first coronavirus case may have been a 55-year-old patient from Hubei province as early as 17th November .
It was first posted on Weibo on 30 December 2019 and was confirmed by Wuhan CDC the next day ( 31 December ) .The first known patient started experiencing symptoms on 1 December 2019 .
2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in mainland China