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Until now, there has been mainly the Wuhan theory about the origin of the new corona virus: the virus is presumed to be transmitted from a bat to humans in a wild animal market in the Chinese city of millions.
But epidemiologists doubt this representation because some data does not fit this picture. Because studies indicate that more than a million people were infected with Covid-19 in January, at a time when the virus was not yet considered a threat. This is reported by the renowned British magazine Economist.
All the studies on the early phase of the infection also point to an origin in the subtropical south of China. This is what “Die Welt” writes, which is based on various studies. In southern China, an undetected coronavirus may have jumped from an animal to a human and mutated into the deadly Sars-CoV-2 in September 2019, that is, three months ahead of the expected date.
Generalized not recognized in Europe
Therefore, the researchers do not rule out that the virus has existed for a year and that it could spread unnoticed, also in Europe!
This is supported by sewage samples in Italy and observations in France. The Italian national health institute ISS reported that the Sars-CoV-2 genome was detectable in samples from Milan and Turin from mid-December and from Bologna since late January.
In Alsace, it was recognized in lung patients on subsequent CT images that a Covid-19-like illness could have been the cause in mid-November. Samples from pneumonia patients stored in late December showed positive evidence that the virus must have been in circulation in France by the end of 2019.
A Harvard University study also suspects, based on the evidence, that Covid-19 was in circulation sooner than previously assumed. Researchers have found that as early as the late summer of 2019, the Chinese were increasingly searching the Internet for “cough” and “diarrhea”, both clear symptoms of Corona.
One tenth of all infected people?
More than a million people have officially died from Covid-19 worldwide and around 34 million are infected. These numbers are based on tests done on just a fraction of people around the world.
Therefore, the researchers do not rule out that the deadly virus has already spread to between 500 and 730 million people, which corresponds to about 10 percent of the world’s population. (gf)
