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The new coronavirus was discovered in a 4-year-old boy in Italy in November last year, according to a new study from Milan State University, ANSA and TASS reported.
The boy from the northern Italian city presented the first symptoms, a cough and a runny nose, on November 21, 2019. At the end of the same month, he was taken to the city’s emergency department. After a few days, the boy received a skin rash and then underwent tests, BTA reported.
At the time, however, no one in Italy could have suspected that it could be the new coronavirus, which was officially announced by Chinese authorities only on December 31 in connection with the outbreak in the city of Wuhan. The boy was diagnosed with smallpox. His test was later retested and the new coronavirus was later found.
This shows that the virus circulated in Italy much earlier than previously thought. Italian authorities have reported the first confirmed case of coronavirus infection in the country on February 21, 2020: a man from Codonjo, in the northern region of Lombardy, whose capital is Milan.
The researchers who studied the child’s test samples decided to once again analyze the cases of smallpox and rubella in Italy from September 2019 to February 2020. There are suggestions that children with the virus may develop Kawasaki syndrome, which it is expressed in the defeat of the medium and small arteries, which in turn manifests itself with redness of the skin. So far, several cases of this disease have been recorded in children in Italy, including newborns with KOVID-19.
The assumption that the new coronavirus has been in Italy since the end of last year is not new. Previously, it was reported that antibodies to the new coronavirus were detected in samples taken in September last year from participants in a cancer-related study. In addition, the virus was in Milan’s sewage in mid-December last year, according to a subsequent analysis of samples taken during that period.
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