Coronavirus could have been spreading in Europe as early as last October, bombshell new research has revealed. Italian scientists claim hundreds of patients were rushed to hospital with serious pneumonia and flu-like symptoms.
Some of those admitted with Covid-19-like symptoms later died in hospital. Epidemic expert Adriano Decarli said: “We want to know if the virus was already here in Italy at the end of 2019, and - if yes - why it remained undetected for a relatively long period so that we could have a clearer picture in case we have to face a second wave of the epidemic.
Giuseppe Remuzzi, director of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, added that doctors in virus hotspot Lombardy had reported unusual cases of