The author is indebted to Professor Yong-Zhen Zhang, Fudan University, Shanghai, the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & School of Public Health, the Central Hospital of Wuhan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control, and Professor Edward Holmes, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia for the rapid provision of the Wuhan coronavirus genome sequence WH-Human_1 and subsequent GenBank submissions to the international research community and the public.