FILE PHOTO: A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to COVID-19MILAN: The authors of a study showing that the new coronavirus was circulating in Italy earlier than experts had previously believed said on Thursday their data did not dispute the origins of COVID-19 as they defended the accuracy of their findings.
The novel coronavirus was first identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December. Italy's first COVID-19 patient was detected on Feb 21 in a small town near Milan, in the northern region of Lombardy. "These findings simply document that the epidemic in China was not detected in time," Giovanni Apolone, scientific director of National Cancer Institute and a co-author of the study, told a news conference in Milan.Much of the scepticism was focused on the so-called specificity of the antibody tests, that, if not perfect, might reveal the presence of antibodies to other diseases.
Hmm Spain had SARS CoV-2 in the waste water early March 2019 so maybe it got mutated in Spain and jumped into other countries because of traveling
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