- Coronavirus, Capua: "Europe adopts common guidelines for classifying cases"
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March 25, 2020 "Absolutely not. Covid-19 is a virus that derives from the wild reservoir. We still don't know how many animal species it hit before reaching humans. I would like to tell the conspiracy theorists that the barcode, the sequence, of that virus mentioned in the Leonardo Tgr, is an integral part of the publication ".The virologist Ilaria Capua who directs the One Health Center of Excellence, at the University of Florida, told TG1 at 20.00 about the controversies that arose from a 2015 report by Leonardo.
The broadcast was about a dangerous supervirus created in China. "So - Capua told TG1 - if Covid-19 had been close to that virus there we would have known immediately the next day".
Cautiously optimistic for Italy
For Italy "I feel I am cautiously optimistic. We do not forget that what we see today as contagions, are infections that date back to 10-15 days ago. So if the containment measures have had the desired effect this trend should strengthen in the next few days, "said the virologist. And on the situation in the USA: "I am teaching remotely. We are on the same boat. Unfortunately America is behind Italy".