BARCELONA, KOMPAS.com – Researchers at the University of Barcelona discovered the corona virus in frozen wastewater samples from March 12, 2019.
If the findings have been patented, then the research will change the timeline of the origin of the corona virus that has been trusted from China.
Reporting from Anadolu Agency Friday (6/26/2020), these findings were published in medRxiv, server trusted publication of pre-printed versions of medical research, while still being done peer review.
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The server has been an important source of recent research on Covid-19, a disease caused by a new type of corona virus.
The University of Barcelona in a press release on Friday (6/26/2020) said the results of the study had been “sent to major journals.”
In this study, the researchers examined samples from two large wastewater treatment plants in Barcelona, to detect the evolution of viruses in the city.
Because the virus is dumped into feces the researchers say, “observing waste can be a way to monitor the spread of the virus.”
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Studies to study Covid-19 in wastewater are ongoing in many countries.
Researchers in Barcelona began by analyzing weekly samples from April 13 to May 25, then studying frozen samples from the beginning of the year.
The analysis detected an official virus named SARS-CoV-2 at the Barcelona waste disposal site on January 15, 41 days before the first corona case was reported in Barcelona.
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