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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia – Evidence reveals that corona virus possibility is in France earlier than previously thought.
Doctors at Paris hospitals said they found evidence that a patient treated in December was infected with Covid-19.
If verified, these findings also indicate that the coronavirus had circulated in Europe before, long before the first cases were detected in France and Italy.
The claim is different from the French report that confirmed the first Covid-19 case on January 24. The two patients are known to have a history of travel to Wuhan, China.
“Covid-19 had spread in France in late December 2019, a month before the first official case in the country,” wrote the medical team at the Hospital de la Seine in Paris in Saint-Denis.
Intensive care specialist Yves Cohen and colleagues at the Paris hospital decided to examine the records of sick patients before January 24 to explore the possibility that the coronavirus will spread earlier than expected.
The team observed people who were hospitalized with flu-like illnesses between December 2 and January 16 and who were subsequently not diagnosed with influenza. Doctors retested samples stored in the freezer to detect coronavirus.
“A positive sample, taken from a 42-year-old man born in Algeria, who lived in France for many years and worked as a fish seller,” the team wrote in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents as cited by CNN, Tuesday (5/5).
“His last trip was to Algeria in August 2019,” they wrote. The man had never been to China, and one of his children was also ill, the team reported.
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“The identification of the first infected patient is of great epidemiological interest because it drastically changed our knowledge of SARS-VOC-2 and its spread in this country. Furthermore, the lack of connection with China and the recent lack of travel indicate that the disease has spread. spread among the French population in late December 2019, “they wrote.
But the claim has not been independently verified.
Europe was not known to have reported cases of the January corona virus in early January. Italy, the most exposed European country, Covid-19 confirmed the first two cases on January 31. They are Chinese tourists in Rome. While the first community transmission was detected in February in Codogno, in northern Italy.
Investigators in the United States are also beginning to find evidence that the virus infects and kills people before the first reported case in the country.
The Corona virus began to spread from the end of 2019 in the city of Wuhan. The virus is suspected to have originated in animals and then spread to humans. The virus then spread throughout the country and even across countries. (dea)
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