It's not a typo. The article points out how early it is: >The discovery of virus genome presence so early in Spain, if confirmed, would imply the disease may h

It's not a typo. The article points out how early it is: >The discovery of virus genome presence so early in Spain, if confirmed, would imply the disease may have appeared much earlier than the scientific community thought. >The University of Barcelona team, who had been testing waste water since mid-April this year to identify potential new outbreaks, decided to also run tests on older samples.