NEW YORK'S OUTBREAK CAME MOSTLY FROM EUROPE - NOT CHINA The first cases of coronavirus in New York spread mostly from Europe, according to two scientific studies.
Researchers believe the virus was being spread around the city by mid-February - weeks before New York's first confirmed case.
The scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai N.Y.U. and Grossman School of Medicine studied DNA from thousands of samples of coronavirus patients and concluded the first travelers to bring the virus to the city came from Europe, not Asia.
But they also found that the strand of the virus that arrived in Washington state came from China.
Both research teams analyzed genomes from coronaviruses taken from New Yorkers starting in mid-March.
One of the studies detected seven separate strains of viruses that arrived in the New York City area and researchers expect to find more.
Despite examining different examples of the outbreak, researchers from both teams reached largely the same conclusions about its origins, according to specialists.
Dr Harm van Bakel, a geneticist and co-author of the Icahn School's study, told the New York Times: 'The majority is clearly European.'
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