Kazakhstan's Anna Danilina wins tennis tournament in China
Kazakhstan's Anna Danilina and Russia's Irina Khromacheva captured the first WTA 1000 title of their careers, defeating Asia Muhammad …
Wuhan
FBI names most likely origin of COVID-19 pandemic
FBI Director Christopher Wray said the agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic. "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most …
The science around the lab leak theory of COVID-19
More scientists have grown comfortable discussing publicly: There's no clear evidence either way.
WHO rejects China foreign food coronavirus idea
The World Health Organisation is not following up on claims that the novel coronavirus may have originally reached China through foreign frozen food, UN health agency expert Peter Embarek says, dismissing a Chinese theory. The WHO …
WHO: people most likely get infected with Covid-19 from bats
Animal disease specialist, WHO expert Peter Daszak said people most likely got infected with Covid-19 from bats. "I think the virus emerging either in Southeast Asia or Southern China from bats, getting into a domesticated wildlife …
Possible early COVID-19 cases in China emerge during WHO mission
About 90 people were hospitalized with COVID-19-like symptoms in central China in the two months before the disease was first identified in Wuhan in late 2019, according to World Health Organization investigators, who said they pressed Beijing to …
WHO ream finds 'important clues' in origin of outbreak
A World Health Organisation expert investigating the origins of COVID-19 says his team has uncovered “important clues” about a Wuhan seafood market's role in the outbreak, Bloomberg reported. Peter Daszak, a New …
WHO team in Wuhan investigating COVID origins leaves quarantine
A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic left its quarantine hotel in Wuhan on Thursday to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city where the virus emerged in late 2019. …
WHO team arrives in Wuhan
A team of experts from the World Health Organization arrived in Wuhan today to start a highly politicised probe into the origins of the coronavirus, as China reported its first death from Covid-19 in eight months. The 10 scientists, who …
World takes in muted New Year’s Eve
In Sydney the fireworks soared into the sky above the Opera House, but the harbour below was empty. In New York, Times Square was mostly deserted. No light show illuminated Beijing from the top of the TV tower. With revelry around the world curtailed by lockdowns and curfews imposed to stem the spread of Covid-19, the lions of London’s Trafalgar Square were barricaded off, and there were no crowds in St Peter’s Square and no one diving into the Tiber in Rome. This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other as many people bid farewell to a year they would much prefer to forget – one that has seen more than 1.7 million people killed and 82 million infected by the coronavirus since January
Coronavirus may have been spreading in China since August
Satellite images of hospital parking lots in Wuhan as well as internet search trends, show the coronavirus may have been spreading in China as early as last August, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School. The study, which …
Wuhan discharges last COVID-19 patients from hospital
The last three COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China’s Hubei Province, have recovered and been discharged from hospital, the People’s Daily reported. They were discharged on Thursday after two nucleic acid tests for the …
Wuhan reports no new asymptomatic cases for first time
Wuhan, the city in central China's Hubei Province previously hard hit by the novel coronavirus, reported no new asymptomatic cases Sunday, the first time since the provincial capital released figures on the virus carriers showing no …
Russia's consulate general to be opened in Wuhan
Russia’s Foreign Ministry plans to open a consulate general in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province, Russian Ambassador to Beijing Andrei Denisov said. "The city of Wuhan has been well-known to us for a …
More than 100 million people in renewed lockdown in China - media
More than 100 million people in China’s northeast region are once again under lockdown restrictions after new cases of coronavirus have emerged in the region over the past few weeks, according to Bloomberg. Roughly 108 …
U.S. - China: coronavirus showdown
The U.S. is introducing a bill imposing sanctions on China
Wuhan to test entire population for coronavirus
Wuhan has ordered officials to test its entire population of 11 million people after the central Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic began reported new infections for the first time since its lockdown was lifted. All …
Western intel dossierlays out case against China bat virus program - media
A research dossier compiled by the so-called "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance states that China intentionally hid or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak, leading to the loss of tens of thousands of lives around the world. …
Coronavirus originated in Wuhan Virology Lab?
'Patient zero' worked at the Wuhan lab, and spread the coronavirus into the local population after leaving work, Fox News reported citing sources who had been briefed on intelligence. "There is increasing confidence that …
About 15% of cats in Wuhan infected with novel coronavirus, researchers say
Chinese vets have collected blood samples from 100 stray and house cats from Wuhan, finding that about 15% of them have been infected with the novel coronavirus. Their research was published on the bioRxiv website, TASS reports. …
