Covid 19 barcelona sewer. Spanish virologists believe they may have found traces of covid 19 in a sample of waste water collected in barcelona in march of last year. Oviedo spain researchers at the university of barcelona said they detected the novel coronavirus in a frozen barcelona wastewater sample from march 12 2019. This week researchers at the university of barcelona have published new findings that suggest the virus that causes covid 19 has been found in sewage samples from march of 2019 a june 28.
To get answers to your questions about covid 19 call the broward county covid 19 hotline at 954 357 9500 or email covid 19atflhealthgov. If that is proven to be the case it would mean the discovery was made nine months before the coronavirus was first identified in china. The group led by rosa maria pinto and albert bosch was exploring the potential of wastewater analysis in early warning systems and the prevention of future covid 19 outbreaks when it made the surprise discovery.
Its been collecting sewer water and sending it to a startup company from mit biobot analytics. If the research holds up it will blow apart the accepted timeline about the virus and the idea that it originated in china. If you think you have been exposed to covid 19 call the hotline before visiting a doctor or any health care facility.
The university of barcelona said the discovery of the virus genome so early in spain if confirmed would imply covid 19 may have appeared much earlier than thought. 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. So far its found that there could be up to ten times more people with covid 19 in dauphin county.
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