A top Swedish health official says it’s likely there were imported
coronavirus cases as early as last year in the nation, according to a
report.
Anders Tegnell, chief epidemiologist at Sweden’s Public Health
Agency, said that he believes the Scandinavian country will ultimately
find that it had cases far back as November 2019,
the Telegraph reported.
“I think you could find individual cases among travelers to Wuhan who
were there back in November and December last year,” he told Sweden’s
TT news agency, according to the outlet. “That doesn’t sound strange at
all, but more completely to be expected.”
His comments come in response to the revelation that a patient in France
was infected with COVID-19 back in December — a month before the contagion was thought to have reached Europe.
Doctors retroactively tested the samples from when the man was
admitted to a hospital near Paris on Dec. 27 with a cough, headache and
fever.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/sweden-says-coronavirus-likely-in-country-as-early-as-november-2019/