Actually the virus spread throughout Europe starting from Germany:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_...2416c8af6c.html


https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468


Italy was the only European country that stopped all the flights to/from China. Germany did not. And the German government had hospitalized the first European case (a German citizen working for a company with a factory in Wuhan, China) on January 27 (one month before the first case seen in Italy).

Yet they completely failed to promptly recognize the problem, did not take any countermeasure and let the disease spread throughout Europe (the same German company, Webasto, has also a factory in Torino, Italy).

The second link (with a detailed description of the dynamics and chronology), points to a report of the prestigious "The New England Journal of Medicine" and is signed by many German researchers.

Interesting enough, also during the renaissance period the plague was spread in Italy by German (and Swiss) mercenaries (landsknechts).

It was reported some guy pulled a knife and threatened another person over a last pack of toilet paper.

Actually the virus spread throughout Europe starting from Germany:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_...2416c8af6c.html


https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2001468


Italy was the only European country that stopped all the flights to/from China. Germany did not. And the German government had hospitalized the first European case (a German citizen working for a company with a factory in Wuhan, China) on January 27 (one month before the first case seen in Italy).

Yet they completely failed to promptly recognize the problem, did not take any countermeasure and let the disease spread throughout Europe (the same German company, Webasto, has also a factory in Torino, Italy).

The second link (with a detailed description of the dynamics and chronology), points to a report of the prestigious "The New England Journal of Medicine" and is signed by many German researchers.

Interesting enough, also during the renaissance period the plague was spread in Italy by German (and Swiss) mercenaries (landsknechts).

This first hotspot of Corona in Germany was an example how authorities and the company reacted quickly, so that there was a total of 19 infected people, and the outbreak was completely stopped. For weeks after this hotspot, there were no new cases in n Germany, and only end of February a new massive outbreak started in a totally different region of Germany.

So what you say is nonsense, and your sources don‘t speak about a spread from Germany abroad at that stage either. The 19 infected people in Bavaria were limited to a town outside Munich. No other cases appeared anywhere else in Bavaria at that time and the following weeks. And you speculate the virus „jumped“ from that town to Italy, sparing all the rest of Bavaria and Austria...

If you read my first link:

(ANSA) - Rome, March 5 - The coronavirus entered Europe more than once and the first hotbed may have been isolated at Munich in Germany in January, according to a genetic map published Thursday on the Netxstrain site.

The site was founded and directed by a group led by Trevor Bedford, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

The map, a sort of family tree of the virus, indicates that the German hotbed may have silently fed the chain of infection and is linked to many cases in Europe and Italy.
Italy reported its first coronavirus case on February 21.



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With all the world worried about the Corona virus and looking at China, it would have been interesting to know that on January 27 there was a spread of disease in Germany.
Yet the German government did NOT say it and nobody knew. This is exactly the same policy carried out by China at the beginning of January: try to cover up the problem so that the world does not know.

But now the DNA test shows the truth: that German outbreak has silently fed all the other following cases in Europe (including the ones in Italy).

Sorry you (as your government) do not like it, but that, according to the researchers in Seattle (USA), is the hard truth.

I'm sure the guy that had the knife pulled on him needed it more .

chas

It’s a world problem and pointing fingers provides nothing useful, so get over it as no one cares where it came from at the present time, everything should be focussed on fixing it, and recriminations can come after it is fixed. (Some of the human race is pathetic in times of crisis)

Bill