Skin sample from Milan woman shows Covid-19 infection weeks before Wuhan outbreak msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The woman visited a Milan hospital in November 2019 with a sore throat
A skin sample taken from the woman at the time yielded traces of Covid-19
A blood sample taken several months later showed coronavirus antibodies
Research into the case suggests Covid-19 was circulating internationally before it was first detected and reported in China in December 2019
However further research has been frustrated by the failure to locate the woman
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In the quest to understand how the Covid-19 pandemic began, one persistent mystery is an Italian woman who researchers say they can no longer find. Members of a World Health Organization-led team studying the origins of the virus want to investigate the case of a 25-year-old Milan resident who in November 2019 visited a hospital with a sore throat and skin lesions: symptoms of a disease that wouldn’t be discovered in the city of Wuhan in China for another month.
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Published July 12, 2021, 2:24 PM
The government has purchased 89 million doses of coronavirus vaccines amounting around $1 billion so far amid efforts to step up the inoculation of Filipinos against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
A Manila resident receives a first dose of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine during the inoculation drive at a school in Tondo, Manila on June 20, 2012. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin)
Of this vaccine purchase, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the government has already paid $400 million for the life-saving drugs secured from foreign suppliers.
The country has so far received 20.7 million doses of coronavirus jabs, including Sinovac, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, and Sputnik V. The recent deliveries to the Philippines included 132,200 Sputnik V jabs, over 2 million AstraZeneca donated under COVAX facility, and 1.1 million donated by the government of Japan.
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