COVID-19 NEW Update: Virus Started Spreading Earlier Than We Think in Italy

On Friday, June 19, experts found out that there was already a coronavirus spread in Italy, earlier than its first reported case. Two months before Italy's first case in February, the country's health institute studied that there were already virus traces in two of its cities' sewage system. Is this proof that China did not start the virus spread?

Where did Coronavirus started? Italy finds early traces of virus in December

If the virus started in Italy in December, does this mean that it originally started in this country? To clarify, it is not.

The Italian government said that the research does not "automatically imply that the main transmission chains that led to the development of the epidemic in our country originated from these very first cases."

However, it mainly explains how the country gets the infectious disease.

This also proves that the collection of waste from the sewage system may bring info to all countries of the exact date of their infections.

Paris recorded positive coronavirus case on December 27, 2019

Since ISS already found out that virus may have been circulating in Italy in mid- December, this supports the idea of Paris discovering a man with pneumonia in late Dec, had coronavirus disease actually.

If Italy records this momentous change, can it mean that other countries may record different Coronavirus findings too?

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