An Italian woman has been infected with the new coronavirus in November 2019

ROME, Jan. 11 (Xinhua Li Jie) According to an Ansa news agency and the Website of the Republic and other Italian media reported on the 11th, the University of Milan, Italy led an international research team from the country's young female skin disease patients in November 10, 2019 biopsy samples, found the new coronavirus gene sequence. The results bring Italy's "Patient Zero" forward again to November 2019.
the findings were published in the British Journal of Dermatology. The researchers examined a biopsy sample of an undiagnosed patient with undiagnosed atypical dermatology in the last months of 2019 and found that the patient was infected with the new coronavirus, and that her symptoms were only red patches in the skin and mild sore throats. In addition, the patient tested positive for the new coronavirus antibody in a serum test in June 2020. Researchers at the University of Milan believe this is the earliest case of new coronavirus infection found in Italy.
, who led the study and is from the University of Milan, told the media that samples of new coronavirus infections could be found in the coming study, earlier than in November 2019. He said the study found that some cases of neo-coronavirus showed only symptoms of skin disease, so they wanted to know if any of the skin disease patients who had been infected with the new coronavirus before the outbreak.
, researchers have detected the new coronavirus in urban wastewater samples from the northern Italian cities of Milan and Turin in December 2019. In November 2020, researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Milan, Italy, and others published a paper in the country's Journal of Oncology, saying the new coronavirus could have spread in Italy as early as September 2019, months before Italy reported its first confirmed case of the new crown.