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Coronavirus began to spread through Italy for two months before it was considered to be The Guardian writes, citing data from the National Institute of health.

According to local virologists, traces COVID-19 was detected in samples of wastewater, taken in Milan and Turin in December last year. Meanwhile, the same samples taken in October and November 2019, was completely normal. The results of the study call into question the generally accepted in the scientific community the chronology of the spread of infection in the Old world.

We will remind, the first officially confirmed case of infection in the Apennines was recorded only in February. Since the beginning of the pandemic, diagnosis of "pneumonia new type" was delivered almost 239 thousand residents of the country, of which 34 thousand people died.