First person to contancted to (COVID-19) Corona case from Hubei in China a 55 year old Wei Guixian she was selling shrimps in Wuhan dated on17 November 2019 according to 'South China Morning Post'more than a month earlier than doctors noted cases in Wuhan, China, which is in Hubei province, at the end of December.
Even with this Nov. 17 case identified, doctors can't be certain the individual is "patient zero," or the very first individual to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, and there's a chance even earlier cases will be found, reported.