Italian experts have revealed in their research that the corona virus was circulating in the European country Italy since September last year, but the first regular case of the epidemic was reported in February 2020.
The new research says that Corona was in Italy before China, where its symptoms appeared in patients in September 2019, while the first confirmed case of Corona in China was reported in December 2020. The pandemic hit China and Italy hard.
The research was conducted at Italy’s National Center Institute (INT) and has been published in the medical journal Tumori Journal. In which it is said that Corona had reached Europe earlier than expected.
The first case of the epidemic was reported in Wuhan, China in December, while the first case in Italy was diagnosed on February 21, but Italy is the country where the symptoms and effects of Corona have been seen in patients since 2019.
The study, which followed clinical observations of 959 healthy volunteers enrolled in a lung cancer trial between September 2019 and March 2020, found that 11.6 percent of them had antibodies to the coronavirus before February. had been formed, further evidence of this was also found through tests.
Experts involved in the study say that in the first week of October 2019, 4 cases tested positive for antibodies that neutralize the coronavirus, indicating that they were infected with the virus in September.
He said that the corona virus was already circulating in the world with less effect but now it emerged.
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