Samples from a study suggesting the coronavirus was circulating outside China by October 2019 have been re-tested at the World Health Organization's request, two scientists who led the Italian research said (1/4)
The WHO reacted to Biden's announcement that intelligence agencies were pursuing rival theories, including the possibility of a laboratory accident in China, by saying the search was being "poisoned by politics" (2/4)
Covid-19 was first identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, while Italy's first patient was detected on Feb. 21 last year in a small town near Milan (3/4)
A study published last year suggested antibodies to either the virus or a variant were detected in Italy in 2019 (4/4)

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