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China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team’s investigators said. The lack of data potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began over a year ago, after it was first detected in China’s Wuhan. The team … Read more
The head of WHO today insisted that the theory Covid-19 emerged in a laboratory in Wuhan has not been dismissed following a controversial fact-finding mission to China. The investigation to Wuhan, where the first cases were detected, failed to identify the source of the virus but appeared to disregard the theory that it leaked from a … Read more
A scientist on the WHO’s controversial fact-finding mission to China today lashed out at the US and said its intelligence about the origins of coronavirus was ‘wrong on many aspects’. Wading directly into the sensitive politics of the mission, Peter Daszak said people should not ‘rely too much on US intelligence’ because president Joe Biden … Read more
WHO investigators BACK Beijing’s claim Covid did NOT leak from a Wuhan lab and call for ‘no further study into that theory’ as China tries to pin blame on imported frozen meat By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline Published: 10:44 GMT, 9 February 2021 | Updated: 10:58 GMT, 9 February 2021 WHO scientists researching the origins … Read more
The World Health Organization investigators in Wuhan say they have been given data ‘no-one has seen before’ and have not ruled out that Covid escaped from a lab. Dr Peter Daszak, a British zoologist on the WHO team, said last night that China was being open with them and allowing them to explore wherever the evidence leads. But … Read more
World Health Organisation experts tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus toured a Wuhan propaganda exhibition celebrating China’s recovery from the pandemic today. The group also had a meeting at the hospital where the first confirmed Covid-19 cases were treated over a year ago. Details of the trip have been scant so far, … Read more
A team of medics from the World Health Organization has embarked upon its first full day investigating the origins of Covid in China. The 13-strong team of international experts travelled to a hospital in Hubei province on Friday which was the first to treat Covid patients and interviewed Chinese researchers working on the virus. While … Read more
A team of doctors from the World Health Organisation today ended a 14-day Covid quarantine in the city of Wuhan and set off on a fact-finding mission to trace the origins of the virus. The 13-strong team, which arrived in Wuhan on January 14, received documents certifying they had completed their isolation period Thursday morning … Read more
Beijing is using anal swabs to test its residents for coronavirus, a method that experts say is more accurate and raises the chances of detecting the virus. To collect test samples, the swab needs to be inserted about two to three centimetres (0.8 to 1.2 inches) into the rectum and rotated several times. After completing … Read more
One year after entering lockdown, Wuhan’s youth are filling the city’s nightclubs, its pandemic-spawning markets have reopened and a film is released praising the city’s response. Meanwhile, much of the rest of the world continues its battle with the deadly disease first detected in the Chinese city, which has caused the deaths of more than … Read more