French patient had coronavirus in 2019

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France has discovered a patient who had the coronavirus as far back as December 2019, suggesting that the virus has been spreading for longer than previously believed.

A patient admitted to the hospital in late December with flu-like symptoms turns out to have had COVID-19, according to an article in Bloomberg.

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