路透社報道確認，新冠病毒在去年9月即在意大利開始傳播_風聞

原文鏈接 https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-emerged-italy-earlier-thought-171605993.html

Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, Italian study shows

By Giselda Vagnoni

Reuters*•*November 16, 2020摘抄幾個主要的文字段落：

the Italian researchers’ findings, published by the INT’s scientific magazine Tumori Journal, show that 11,6% of 959 healthy volunteers enrolled in a lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 and March 2020, had developed coronavirus antibodies well before February.

It showed that four cases dated back to the first week of October were also positive for antibodies neutralizing the virus, meaning they had got infected in September。有4個案例顯示去年9月就已感染。

Italian researchers told Reuters in March that they reported a higher than usual number of cases of severe pneumonia and flu in Lombardy in the last quarter of 2019 in a sign that the new coronavirus might have circulated earlier than previously thought. 倫巴第大區去年四季度有異常高的肺炎與感冒病例

。。。武漢作為九省通衢，中國中心腹地的位置，從理論上説，如果在未知情況下醖釀傳播時間長些的話，全中國應該早就傳播開了。然而中國迅速控制住了，而疫情幾乎限於武漢一地（及省內鄰近周邊)，這個事實也可合理推斷，武漢應該只是最早發現與報告，而不是起源地。