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Was Covid with us long before anyone realised?

29 June 2020

11:37 PM

29 June 2020

11:37 PM

One of the mysteries of the Covid-19 crisis is how the disease seemed to bubble up out of nowhere in Italy at the end of February – at a time when it seemed to be under control in China. In spite of local quarantines and the isolation of individual patients, the epidemic quickly took hold.

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