Virus already in Italy by December, waste water study finds
1 / 3Researchers across the world have been tracing the spread of coronavirus through waste water and sewage, finding genetic traces from Brisbane to Paris and AmsterdamResearchers across the world have been tracing the spread of coronavirus through waste water and sewage, finding genetic traces from Brisbane to Paris and Amsterdam Rome - The coronavirus was present in two large Italian cities in December, more than two months before the first case was detected, a national health institute...
On February 21 the government ordered Codogno shuttered, followed by nine other towns across Lombardy and Veneto. The results, confirmed in two different laboratories by two different methods, showed the presence of SARS-CoV-2 in samples taken in Milan and Turin on December 18, 2019 and in Bologna on January 29, 2020.
It also pointed to a recent Spanish study that found genetic traces in waste water samples collected in mid-January in Barcelona, some 40 days before the first indigenous case was discovered.
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