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Newshour: 19/06/2020 20:06 GMT: Coronavirus was already in Italy by December, waste water study finds

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19/06/2020 20:06 GMT

19/06/2020 20:06 GMT: Coronavirus was already in Italy by December, waste water study finds

BBC World Service - Newshour, Coronavirus was already in Italy by December, waste water study finds

Italian scientists say sewage contained coronavirus long before the first confirmed cases

Italian scientists say sewage water from two cities contained coronavirus traces in December, long before the country's first confirmed cases. The National Institute of Health (ISS) said waste water from Milan and Turin showed genetic virus traces on 18 December 2019.

Also in the programme: Juneteenth celebrated every year by African-Americans to commemorate the end of slavery; and the main rival of the President of Belarus - once described as the "last dictatorship in Europe" - is arrested in Minsk.

(Photo: A medical staff member disinfects his hands in the intensive care unit, where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are treated, at the Circolo hospital in Varese, Italy. Credit: Reuters/Flavio Lo Scalzo)

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