Doctors in France find coronavirus case from December
They say the findings suggest the virus was present a month before the first official case was recorded
Doctors at a French hospital retested old samples from pneumonia patients and discovered that they treated a man who had coronavirus as early as 27 December, nearly a month before the nation’s government confirmed its first cases.
The team have sat the case suggests the virus was circulating in France a month before the first official case was recorded.