The first known case of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19" id="mwAW0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan,_Hubei_Province" id="mwAW4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wuhan, Hubei Province">Wuhan, Hubei Province</a>, China.<sup about="#mwt68" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"}}' id="cite_ref-11" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_17#cite_note-11" id="mwAW8" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXA">[11]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-11"><cite about="#mwt65" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFMa2020">Ma, Josephine (13 March 2020). <a class="external text" href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3074991/coronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back" id="mwB8c" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Coronavirus: China's first confirmed Covid-19 case traced back to November 17"</a>. <i id="mwB8g">South China Morning Post</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB8k">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB8o">15 March</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt65" class="Z3988" id="mwB8s" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=South+China+Morning+Post&amp;rft.atitle=Coronavirus%3A+China%27s+first+confirmed+Covid-19+case+traced+back+to+November+17&amp;rft.date=2020-03-13&amp;rft.aulast=Ma&amp;rft.aufirst=Josephine&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scmp.com%2Fnews%2Fchina%2Fsociety%2Farticle%2F3074991%2Fcoronavirus-chinas-first-confirmed-covid-19-case-traced-back&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANovember+17"></span></span>