On the Origin and Propagation of the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Italian Province of Trento, a Tourist Region of Northern Italy.
Luca BiancoMirko MoserAndrea SilverjDiego MichelettiGiovanni LorenzinLucia ColliniMattia BarbareschiPaolo LanzafameNicola SegataMassimo PindoPietro FranceschiOmar Rota-StabelliAnnapaola RizzoliPaolo FontanaClaudio DonatiPublished in: Viruses (2022)
Comparing the draft genomes analyzed with a large selection of European sequences retrieved from GISAID we found that multiple introductions of the virus occurred at the early stage of the epidemics; the two epidemic waves were unrelated; the second wave was due to reintroductions of the virus in summer when traveling restrictions were uplifted.