As is common knowledge now, the virus first emerged in this city in late December and was tracked down after dozens of people were observed to be contracting pneumonia from an unknown source. On January 11, China confirmed the first novel coronavirus death of a 61-year-old man who had visited the Wuhan live animals market; it took them another 12 days to put in place aggressive containment measures -- but only for a single city.

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