According to a recent report, Wei Guixian was a shrimp seller at the Huanan Seafood Market when she developed COVID 19 , which she thought was a cold last December.Wuhan Municipal Health Commission has confirmed that Wei was among the first 27 people who tested positive for novel coronavirus infection.The woman may be the first person to have tested positive for the disease, says a media report. The report is by a London-based Metro newspaper. Chinese digital news outlet, The Paper, has said that she may be 'patient zero'.Wei was informed by the doctors that her illness was ruthless and other workers at the market had come to the Wuhan Union Hospital with the same symptoms."Every winter, I suffer from the flu, so I thought it was the flu," the woman was quoted as saying by The Paper news outlet. The shrimp seller said she thought she caught the novel coronavirus infection from the shared toilet at the market.She said, "The fatal disease would have killed fewer people if the government had acted sooner".Out of these 27 people, 24 cases had direct links to the market.Though Wei may be "patient zero", it does not mean she is the first person to have contracted the virus, added the Metro report.The total number of reported cases as of Sunday morning is 6,64,941 with 30, 894 deaths.The US has the highest number of cases at 104,837, followed by Italy 86,498 and China 81,948.Also See: Coronavirus Prevention