Skin sample from Milan woman shows Covid-19 infection weeks before Wuhan outbreak – study

BEIJING – A World Health Organization-led team has found the novel coronavirus was circulating in China and elsewhere long before the outbreak at Wuhan’s Huanan seafood market in December 2019 after studying the case of an Italian woman, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday. The 25-year-old woman visited a Milan hospital complaining about a sore throat and skin lesions in November 2019, a month before Covid-19 would be identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan. She left behind a skin sample smaller than a dime. Two tests conducted more than six months later yielded traces of the novel coronavirus, according to…