New study suggests coronavirus appeared in Europe earlier than in China

“The results of this new analysis suggest that what we have previously reported in asymptomatic patients is a plausible sign of early viral circulation in Italy “researcher Giovanni Apolone told the Financial Times newspaper.

In this sense, he indicated that “if this were confirmed, this would explain the explosion of symptomatic cases observed in Italy (in 2020), for which” Sars-Cov-2, or an earlier version, broadcast silently, below the surface“Before the pandemic that would have started in China was officially declared.

According to the investigation, the labs found three samples positive for the IgM antibody, associated with a recent coronavirus infection, and the oldest of them dates from October 10, 2019, before the virus was detected in Wuhan, in December of the same year.

Italian scientists therefore concluded that the coronavirus circulated in Italy before the pandemic, before the first confirmed cases in China.