SARS-CoV-2 was already in circulation in Northern Cyprus in the prepandemic period

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medical Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus. Electronic address: buket.baddal@neu.edu.tr.
• ² Department of Medical Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• ³ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• ⁴ DESAM Institute, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus.