Virus 'found' in March 2019 Spain sewage

By Nathan Allen and Inti Landauro
Updated June 27 2020 - 4:06am, first published 4:03am
Spanish sewage analysis data suggests COVID-19 may have appeared much earlier than thought.
Spanish sewage analysis data suggests COVID-19 may have appeared much earlier than thought.

Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona says.

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