NEW YORK – SARS-CoV-2 was introduced into Scotland hundreds of times early in the pandemic, a new phylogenetic analysis has found.
The first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in Scotland on the first of March 2020 and the first month of the outbreak there was marked by more than 2,600 COVID-19 cases, 1,800 hospital admissions, and 126 deaths, leading to lockdown measures being implemented by the 23rd of March.