Italy travel linked to 1 in 4 first virus cases outside China: study


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Two thirds of initial cases outside China were linked to travellers from Italy, China and Iran, the study said Filippo. AFP Photo People who had visited Italy accounted for more than a quarter of the first reported cases of the new coronavirus outside China, according to a new study that found most initial infections were linked to just three countries. Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used publicly-available data to trace the early spread of COVID-19 to dozens of affected countries in the 11 weeks before the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic. They found...