A sewage wastewater study conducted by the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) has examined 40 samples and determined that traces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were present in water samples dating back to mid-December.
A Thursday news release from the ISS detailed that a recent analysis of 40 wastewater samples collected from October 2019 to February 2020, alongside 24 control samples, had identified the earliest traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from water obtained on December 18, 2019, in the Italian cities of Milan and Turin. The first reported cases emerged from Wuhan, China, on December 31.
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