Italy was the first European country to be hit hard by the new corona virus, where its first case was thought to have occurred in February.
But now a study by an Italian expert has revealed that the corona virus had reached there at least in September.
In fact, the study suggests that the virus appeared in Italy at a time when no cases had been reported in China.
A study by Italy's National Center Institute (INT) found that the new corona virus has been circulating in Italy since September 2019, indicating that code 19 had arrived in the European country earlier than expected.
According to the World Health Organization, the first case of code 19 was reported in December in Wuhan, China, while the first case was diagnosed in Italy on February 21.
But research published in the medical journal Tumorie Journal found that between September 2019 and March 2020, 11.6 percent of the 959 healthy volunteers involved in a lung cancer trial developed corona virus antibodies before February.
The study also found that antibody tests for corona virus-specific antibodies developed by the University of Siena were found in people before the outbreak of the SARS cocoon 2 antibody in Italy.
Researcher Giovanni Apollon said that in the first week of October last year, antibodies to the corona virus were ineffective in four cases, indicating that they were infected with the virus in September.
"This is the main finding. People who do not show symptoms of the virus not only test positive for serological tests, but also test positive for antibodies,"
"This means that the new corona virus has been circulating in populations for a long time with low intensity and then emerges,"
Earlier in March, a study claimed that the virus had reached Italy in the last quarter of last year.
Adriano Deserley, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Milan at the time, said hospitals in Lombardy and Milan had seen a significant increase in pneumonia and flu cases between October and December last year.
He said he could not give exact figures yet, but during the last quarter of 2019, there were more cases than usual in hospitals in which patients developed symptoms such as pneumonia and the flu, and some died.
"We want to know if the virus reached Italy at the end of 2019 and if so, why it has not been caught for so long,"
