A swab taken because of suspected measles has now been retested – with surprising results.
Sars-CoV-2 should be in Milan already in circulation in November 2019. This has been determined by doctors who have now re-checked a smear that was taken from a hospital with breathing difficulties Milan delivered boy was taken.
The four-year-old, who had coughed heavily, had been tested for measles in the hospital. The smear was kept at minus 80 degrees in the laboratory and these days by researchers of the Milanese University checked for corona.
They found that the child was infected with Sars-CoV-2. A total of 39 smears from patients with breathing problems between September 2019 and February 2020 were in Milan rechecked. The coronavirus was only found in the case of the child. Neither the boy nor his parents had been abroad before the illness.
The investigation was conducted by the head of the medical department Milanese University, Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti. The results were published by the international trade magazine “Emerging Infectious Diseases”. Experts do not rule out that the corona virus has been circulating in northern Italy since autumn 2019. In Italy, more than 60,000 people have died with or from Covid-19 since the epidemic began.
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