I don't think there's any credible evidence it erupted into the world elsewhere.I'm curious, did COVID start in China, @smartascarrots?
What we do know of the disease and its transmission points to the same original source as SARS, the disease the Wuhan lab was set up to research, and has a similar origin in poor food-animal husbandry.
People seem to love a good China conspiracy but amusingly enough this credits the PRC government with far more capability than it actually has.