Spain: Was Coronavirus Already Spreading Before Lockdown?
April 24, 2020
2:16 pm
The study by researchers from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Madrid indicates that one clade – a virus “family” derived from a single ancestor – of coronavirus was present in mainland Spain as early as February 14.
That was a full month before the country went into lockdown, and a time when officials worldwide were still trying to understand the scale of the virus.
The coronavirus threat was believed
