Don't know how you got there.
“Italian doctors say that even before Mattia’s case, they suspect the virus was circulating in Italy and that some patients who died of pneumonia last fall might have had coronavirus.”
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The words, first reported by America media outlet NPR, offered an evidence for PRC China’s narrative (in propaganda war against Trump) that the virus was not originated from China.
PRC media is trying to push the words to go viral.