claim: sars-cov-2 was already spreading in france in late december 2019
evidence_1: moreover, the absence of a link with china and the lack of recent travel suggest that the disease was already spreading among the french population at the end of december, 2019,\" they wrote.", "\"covid-19 was already spreading in france in late december 2019, a month before the official first cases in the country,\" the team at groupe hospitalier paris seine in saint-denis wrote in a study published sunday in the international journal of antimicrobial agents.")