Latest global coronavirus developments – Hepburn Advocate

Virus emerged in Italy earlier than thought
The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy from September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute of the Italian city of Milan shows, signalling that COVID-19 might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought.
Italy’s first COVID-19 patient was detected on February 21 in a little town near Milan, in the northern region of Lombardy.
But the Italian researchers’ findings show that 11.6 per cent of 959 healthy volunteers enrolled in…

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