Study Reveals COVID-19 Circulated in Morocco Weeks Before First Official Case

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Study Reveals COVID-19 Circulated in Morocco Weeks Before First Official Case

Tracing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Morocco, Moroccan scientists have revealed in a study that the virus was already circulating in the kingdom from mid-January 2020, even though the first case was officially discovered on March 2 of the same year.

According to a study entitled "Genetic diversity and genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Morocco" and published on SciencesDirect, SARS-