意大利去年9月已有新冠?
The coronavirus may have been circulating in Italy since September 2019, three months before it first emerged in China, according to a study released Sunday by the National Cancer Institute in Milan.
意大利米兰市的国家癌症研究所11月15日发布的一项研究显示，新冠病毒2019年9月可能就已在意大利传播，比中国首次报告该病毒的时间(2019年12月)要早三个月。
The research showed that 11.6 percent of the 959 healthy volunteers who participated in a lung cancer screening trial between September 2019 to March 2020 had developed COVID-19 antibodies well before February.
研究显示，在2019年9月至2020年3月期间参加肺癌筛查试验的959名健康志愿者中，11.6%的人早在2月之前就已经产生新冠病毒抗体。
Giovanni Apolone, a co-author of the study, said four cases from the study dated to the first week in October last year, which means those people had been infected in September.
该研究合著者乔瓦尼·阿波隆表示，去年10月第一周的筛查中发现了四例新冠抗体阳性，说明他们早在去年9月就已感染。
The northern region of Lombardy, whose capital is Milan where the pandemic first emerged in February, had previously reported an unusually high number of cases of severe flu and pneumonia in the last quarter of 2019 in a sign that COVID-19 may have circulated earlier than previously thought.
米兰是意大利最早发现新冠疫情的地区，在2月报告了首个新冠病例，然而在2019年第四季度，米兰所在的伦巴第大区的流感重症和肺炎患者的数量异常之多，显示新冠肺炎在当地传播的时间点可能比之前认为的要更早。
