Italy had the West’s earliest reported coronavirus outbreak. Photo: AFP
Italy’s earliest coronavirus strains did not arrive from China, study suggests
- Strains from Covid-19 patients in the Lombardy region ‘did not contain viral strains isolated in the first months of the outbreak in China’
- One possible route to Italy was from Central Europe, where strains with similar mutations were detected, researchers say
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Italy had the West’s earliest reported coronavirus outbreak. Photo: AFP