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The corona virus has had devastating effects in Italy. And now comes a report that shows that the -sars-cov-2 virus was in the country several months earlier than what is known so far.
A deceased in covid-19 is kidnapped by medical personnel in Italy. Stock Photography.
The scientific report of the World Health Organization (WHO) so far has been that covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, was first discovered in the city of Wuhan in China in December last year and that the virus then spread around the world.
The first case in Italy of covid-19 was registered on February 21 of this year in a small town on the outskirts of Milan in the Lombardy region.
But the timing is now contradicted, and radically, by an Italian study, especially in regards to the perception of when sars-cov-2 actually landed in Italy.
The Italian National Cancer Institute (INT) conducted a study on lung cancer between September 2019 and March 2020. In it, a total of 959 volunteers underwent a long series of tests, and the results now make many raise their eyebrows.
The study, published in INT’s scientific journal Tumori, shows that 11.6 of the people had developed antibodies to the virus long before February this year.
The University of Siena has also conducted more in-depth testing for the presence of antibodies against sars-cov-2. They show that four of those examined had antibodies against the virus already at the beginning of October last year, which means that they were infected in September, says Giovanni Apolone, one of the authors of the report.
– This is the main discovery: People without symptoms not only tested positive after the serological test, but also had antibodies that could kill the virus, he says.
-This means that the new coronavirus can circulate for a long time among the population and with low mortality, he continues.
In March, Italian researchers told the Reuters news agency that Lombadria had a higher number of cases of pneumonia and influenza than normal during the last quarter of last year, meaning that sars-cov-2 may have been circulating. there already at that time.
According to the John Hopkins University of the United States, in Italy a total of 1,178,000 cases of infection have been registered and just over 45,200 of those infected have died.
