An investigator with the World Health Organization (WHO) said the CCP virus was “circulating widely” in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Lead WHO investigator Peter Ben Embarek told CNN that his team found signs of a wider outbreak in the Hubei Province city in late 2019, noting that there were at least 13 strains of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, or the novel coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19, around Wuhan by late 2019. “The virus was circulating widely in Wuhan in December, which is a new finding,” he added, saying that around 1,000 people may have been infected at that time. “Some of them are from the markets … some of them are not linked to the markets,” he said. “There [are] about 200,000 samples available there that are now secured and could be used for a new set of studies,” Ben Embarek said. “It would be would be fantastic if …