Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China in late December 2019. We re-analysed 640 throat swabs collected from patients in Wuhan with influenza-like-illness from 6 October 2019 to 21 January 2020 and found that 9 of the 640 throat swabs were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA by quantitative PCR, suggesting community transmission of SARS-CoV2 in Wuhan in early January 2020.

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Xiao-Bing Yang, Leyi Wang, Man-Qing Liu, De-Guang Kong, Yao Li, Ming-Wei Peng,Wen-Hua Kong,"SARS-CoV-2 detection in patients with influenza-like illness"