Pedestrians wearing face masks walk on an almost empty street in Rome, Italy, on Dec 24, 2020, amid a partial lockdown imposed over the Christmas and New Year holidays in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19.- AFP
BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): An Italian was found to have been infected with Covid-19 in November 2019, making her "patient zero" of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy, which has been one of the deadliest in Europe.
The 25-year-old in the northern Italian city was affected by an atypical dermatitis, and a biopsy on her skin highlighted the presence of the novel coronavirus, said a research by a team of scientists at the University of Milan.
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