Many suspected cases among international athletes months before China's first reports to WHO

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/05/12
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The world is beginning to reexamine when COVID-19 first broke out, after a French athlete broke the news that she suspected she contracted the novel coronavirus while participating in an athletic event in Wuhan, China in Oct. 2019 — two months earlier than when China first acknowledged confirmed cases to the WHO, CNA reported on Monday (May 11).

According a report by Radio Free Asia (RFA), French pentathlon world champion Elodie Clouvel recently told local media that when she and her boyfriend Valentin Belaud participated in the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan in last October, many French athletes, including herself, fell ill. At the time they all assumed it to be the flu, but some of them were quite sick, she added.

She went on to say that she recently visited a military doctor, who told her that she may have had coronavirus, as very many on the French team were ill at the same time, according to CNA.
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