Barcelona Wastewater Covid

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Barcelona wastewater covid. The discovery is puzzling given. 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. Researchers detected the presence of the virus that caused the disease in samples of waste water in barcelona collected in march 12 2019. Recent studies have suggested that it was circulating in italy as early as december 2019.

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 novel coronavirus sars cov 2 may have been in europe for longer than previously thought. Traces of the novel coronavirus have been discovered in barcelona sewage water months before the first case of the dreaded disease was reported in china a new study by a group of spanish researchers claims. Coronavirus likely in wastewater the university of barcelona as cited by the truth theory article did indeed find evidence of the novel coronavirus in wastewater.

These results sent to a high impact journal and published in the archive medrxiv suggest the infection was present before knowing about any case of covid 19 in any part of the world. Covid 19 found in barcelona wastewater sample from march 2019 however scientists caution against over interpreting results r esearchers in barcelona say they have detected the presence of covid 19. Researchers at the university of barcelona one of spain s most prestigious universities had detected the presence of the novel coronavirus in wastewater samples collected here on march 12 2019 the university said in a statement on friday.