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FBI names most likely origin of COVID-19 pandemic

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 …

WHO rejects China foreign food coronavirus idea

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 …

Wuhan to test entire population for coronavirus

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 …

Coronavirus originated in Wuhan Virology Lab?

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 …

Cardiac injury tied to higher risk of death from coronavirus

Cardiac injury tied to higher risk of death from coronavirus

Heart injury could be a common condition in patients hospitalized with Covid-19, according to a new study that also shows it's linked to a greater risk of death among those patients. The study, published in the medical journal JAMA …