The Italian daily Corriere della Sera reports that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was present in Milan on January 26, i.e. a month before the first infection in the country was confirmed. This could mean that the epidemic started in Italy much earlier than previously believed.
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The journal refers to the findings of a group of experts appointed by the authorities of the Lombardy region. They concluded, analyzing the symptoms found at the time, that before the detection of Patient No. 1 in the Codogno coronavirus, there were about 1 people throughout Lombardy.
The period of this undetected spread of the virus was dubbed the “dark month” in the newspaper.
Back then, as explained, the multiplying cases of COVID-19 were treated as complications after the flu. The disease was spreading from the end of January without any control – says a group of experts from Lombardy.
In late January, attention in Italy was focused solely on cases of coronavirus infection found in Rome in a pair of Chinese tourists from Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic. A married couple in serious condition was taken to the Spallanzani infectious disease hospital in the Eternal City.
Italy is one of the biggest outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, over 200 people have been found there. cases of infection, 27 thousand. patients died. Almost 69 were cured. infected.
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