據美國《紐約時報》8日報道，最新的基因研究表明，新冠病毒早在2月中旬就開始在紐約地區傳播，病毒主要是從歐洲輸入，而非亞洲。
Researchers suggested the coronavirus was circulating in New York in mid-February as genetic analysis showed that the virus came to the area mainly from Europe, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
紐約西奈山伊坎醫學院遺傳學家哈姆·範·巴克爾在一份研究報告中寫道，攜帶病毒到紐約的大多是歐洲旅行者。他參與撰寫的這份研究報告正在等待同行的評審。
紐約大學格羅斯曼醫學院的研究人員對另一組病例進行了研究，得出了與巴克爾團隊驚人的相似結論。
兩支研究團隊均從3月中旬開始，分析紐約確診病例的新冠病毒基因組。
Harm van Bakel, a geneticist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who co-wrote a study awaiting peer review, was quoted as saying that the majority of the travelers who brought in the virus were European.
A separate team at NYU Grossman School of Medicine came to strikingly similar conclusions, despite studying a different group of cases, said the report.
Both teams analyzed genomes from coronaviruses taken from New Yorkers starting in mid-March.
另據彭博社報道，上個月，紐約大學研究人員對紐約市75名新冠肺炎患者的樣本進行了分析，其中三分之二來自歐洲。
該大學醫學院教授阿德里亞娜·海居表示，新冠病毒似乎是從“英國和法國、奧地利、荷蘭等幾個歐洲國家”輸入到紐約市的。
The NYU researchers conducted an analysis of 75 samples from COVID-19 patients at the hospitals in the New York City last month, according to Bloomberg.
Adriana Heguy, professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, said two-thirds of them "appear to have European origins."
The virus appears to have been imported to the city from "the UK and several European countries, including France, Austria, and the Netherlands," she said.
在研究人員收集的病例中，有一名來自長島的居民，不曾有旅行史，但研究人員發現其攜帶的病毒基因組與在英國傳播的病毒毒株有相關性，這表明該患者曾與從英國帶走病毒的人接觸過。
研究結果還顯示，新冠病毒通過每天從歐洲出發的航班輸入到紐約市。
From one case they sequenced – who was a Long Island resident without travel history, the researchers found that the viral genome shows a correlation with a strain circulating in England, which indicated that the patient had contact with someone who carried the virus from the UK.
The research also revealed daily flights from Europe were a way to bring the virus to the city.
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