MADRID (Reuters) - 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 said on Friday. ...
They first found the virus was present in Barcelona on Jan. 15, 2020, 41 days before the first case was officially reported there.
Then they ran tests on samples taken between January 2018 and December 2019 and found the presence of the virus genome in one of them, collected on March 12, 2019.
“The levels of SARS-CoV-2 were low but were positive,” research leader Albert Bosch was quoted as saying by the university.
The research has been submitted for a peer review.
Dr Joan Ramon Villalbi of the Spanish Society for Public Health and Sanitary Administration told Reuters it was still early to draw definitive conclusions.
Very interesting. If it turns out that it didn't originally come from Wuhan or escape from the virology weapons lab there, I'll stop calling it Wuhan virus.
Why would we believe any news or “science” on the matter, the amount of false positives and the lack of clear understanding of what the virus even is gives them zero credibility. They tested a papaya and it came back positive. We should not let them test anything or anyone who is not seriously ill. They are fear mongers and I wouldn’t trust them to sweep the streets let alone diagnose or treat a disease.
How did a Chinese bat wind up in a Spanish sewer without a passport? This had to be a time shifting worm hole in the Chinese bat cave. I have seen these on TV.
Very interesting. If it turns out that it didn't originally come from Wuhan or escape from the virology weapons lab there, I'll stop calling it Wuhan virus.