Scientists say coronavirus had been around, unnoticed, for weeks in Italy while the country began testing people after February 21
The first Covid-19 infections in Italy date back to January, according to a scientific study presented on Friday, shedding new light on the origins of the outbreak in one of the world's worst-affected countries.
Cases and deaths immediately surged, with scientists soon suspecting that the virus had been around, unnoticed, for weeks. "We realised that there were a lot of infected people in Lombardy well before February 20, which means the epidemic had started much earlier," he said.
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