Coronavirus | WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues
3 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus | WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues

The Hindu  

A World Health Organization team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday visited the food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was linked to many early infections. The team members visited the Huanan Seafood Market for about an hour in the afternoon, and one of them flashed a thumbs up sign when reporters asked how the trip was going. “Very important site visits today — a wholesale market first & Huanan Seafood Market just now," Peter Daszak, a zoologist with the U.S. group EcoHealth Alliance and a member of the WHO team, said in a tweet. “Very informative & critical for our joint teams to understand the epidemiology of COVID as it started to spread at the end of 2019.” Earlier in the day, the team members were The members, with expertise in veterinary medicine, virology, food safety and epidemiology, have so far visited two hospitals at the center of the early outbreak — Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital and the Hubei Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital.

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Covid very likely came from a Chinese lab leak and there was 'obviously' a cover-up by Beijing, British expert says
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Covid very likely came from a Chinese lab leak and there was 'obviously' a cover-up by Beijing, British expert says

Daily Mail  

Covid most likely came from a lab leak in China and its origins were 'obviously' the subject of a cover-up by Beijing, a top British epidemiologist has said. Covid-19 emerged in Wuhan, central China, with differing theories among scientists over whether it could have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or a wet market in the region. Covid-19 emerged …

Wuhan Market: More Likely Origin of COVID-19 Virus Than Previously Thought
2 months, 1 week ago

Wuhan Market: More Likely Origin of COVID-19 Virus Than Previously Thought

The Hindu  

A new study suggests that the Wuhan market in China was the origin of the COVID-19 virus. The data, which was shared publicly by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, included genetic material from more than 800 samples collected at the Huanan market shortly after its closure in early 2020. The researchers found that the virus and the …

Azealia Banks claims Birmingham fish stall made her ill: ‘It’s giving Wuhan wet market’
3 months, 1 week ago

Azealia Banks claims Birmingham fish stall made her ill: ‘It’s giving Wuhan wet market’

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Azealia Banks has claimed that …

New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says
3 months, 2 weeks ago

New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says

LA Times  

A convoy of vehicles carrying investigators from the World Health Organization enters the interior of the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China, early in the COVID-19 pandemic. “This paper has more evidence that supports the animal origin through the Huanan market.” The analysis published Thursday was based on genetic data gleaned from hundreds of samples gathered in and around the …

‘Beyond reasonable doubt’ Covid pandemic originated at Wuhan market stall
3 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Beyond reasonable doubt’ Covid pandemic originated at Wuhan market stall

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It is beyond “reasonable doubt” that the Covid-19 pandemic originated in …

New analysis of Wuhan market samples reveal 'specific species' potential carriers of COVID-19 virus
3 months, 2 weeks ago

New analysis of Wuhan market samples reveal 'specific species' potential carriers of COVID-19 virus

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Along with raccoon dogs, considered a prime suspect for passing on the COVID-19 virus to humans, civet cats and bamboo rats are among a list of potential 'intermediate' host animals that were sold at Wuhan's seafood market -- the pandemic's epicentre -- and may have served as a conduit for the pathogen, according to a new study.Bamboo rats, …

Humans brought Covid to Wuhan market? Chinese scientist's shocking claim
1 year, 8 months ago

Humans brought Covid to Wuhan market? Chinese scientist's shocking claim

Hindustan Times  

A Chinese scientist claimed that the Covid-19 virus may have originated in humans negating the theory that the virus jumped from animals to humans at the Wuhan market. Tong Yigang of the Beijing University of Chemical Technology said that the genetic sequences of viral samples taken from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan were “almost identical” to those of patients …

New study suggests possibility humans introduced COVID-19 to animals
1 year, 9 months ago

New study suggests possibility humans introduced COVID-19 to animals

China Daily  

Humans infected by the COVID-19 virus may have introduced the novel coronavirus to susceptible animals at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, Hubei province, where the first COVID-19 cases were reported, Chinese researchers said on Saturday. Tong Yigang, dean of the College of Life Science and Technology at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, said in a press briefing that no …

‘Not lying, truth is…’: Scientist who found Wuhan Covid data speaks out
1 year, 9 months ago

‘Not lying, truth is…’: Scientist who found Wuhan Covid data speaks out

Hindustan Times  

A scientist from Paris stumbled upon Covid genetic data which was taken from swabs taken at the Huanan seafood market in China's Wuhan just weeks after the virus first emerged. The data suddenly vanished from public view later but the accidental discovery led to confirmation for the first time that animals susceptible to Covid were present at the Wuhan market. …

Covid ‘most-likely’ jumped from animals to humans, claims new report
1 year, 9 months ago

Covid ‘most-likely’ jumped from animals to humans, claims new report

Hindustan Times  

A new analysis of samples taken from a market in Wuhan, China during the early days of the pandemic are the strongest evidence yet that the Covid-19 virus jumped from animals to humans, some researchers say. “These data do not provide a definitive answer to the question of how the pandemic began,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday in …

Explained | A boost to the zoonoses theory regarding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
1 year, 9 months ago

Explained | A boost to the zoonoses theory regarding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

The Hindu  

The story so far: In the never-ending debate about the origin of the virus that set off the COVID-19 pandemic, there is now fresh grist for the mill for those who have held out for the zoonotic angle — that the infection skipped from animals to humans. Undisclosed genetic data from a food market in Wuhan has been unearthed and …

WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid\'s origins
1 year, 9 months ago

WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid\'s origins

Deccan Chronicle  

United Nations/Geneva: The WHO has criticised China for withholding data related to samples taken at a market in Wuhan in 2020 that could have provided vital information about the Covid-19 pandemic's origins, calling on Beijing to be transparent and to share results of investigations it conducts. “The data, from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, relates to samples …

Three years later, what we know: How did COVID start?
1 year, 9 months ago

Three years later, what we know: How did COVID start?

Al Jazeera  

Three years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, questions linger about the origins of the virus that shut down borders, forced humanity into their homes, battered economies and killed millions of people. In early February, the US Department of Energy’s intelligence agency said with “low confidence” that it believed the virus originated from …

FBI chief confirms Covid-19 originated from lab incident in Wuhan
1 year, 10 months ago

FBI chief confirms Covid-19 originated from lab incident in Wuhan

Deccan Chronicle  

Washington: The Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday confirmed that the Covid-19 pandemic originated from a lab incident in Wuhan, China. "FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed that the Bureau has assessed that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a lab incident in Wuhan, China," tweeted the FBI. This development comes after new intelligence had …

Covid 'most likely' leaked from China-controlled lab: FBI director's assertion
1 year, 10 months ago

Covid 'most likely' leaked from China-controlled lab: FBI director's assertion

Hindustan Times  

The Covid virus most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan in China, FBI director Christopher Wray said. "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," Christopher Wray told Fox News in an interview. ”And that's unfortunate for everybody," he added, saying that the …

Report authored by disgraced Peter Daszak says animal to human transmission was most likely scenario
2 years, 2 months ago

Report authored by disgraced Peter Daszak says animal to human transmission was most likely scenario

Daily Mail  

A report co-authored by disgraced scientist Dr Peter Daszak has claimed there is ‘no evidence’ Covid was created in a laboratory. A leaked email from 2020 showed Dr Daszak seeming to express gratitude to Dr Fauci for downplaying the theory that the Covid-19 was created in a lab in Wuhan, China Dr Daszak is considered a potential orchestrator of the …

Did Covid emerge in notorious wet market after all? Two explosive new studies suggest so
2 years, 5 months ago

Did Covid emerge in notorious wet market after all? Two explosive new studies suggest so

Daily Mail  

Fierce debate about the origins of the Covid pandemic was reignited today after two new studies claimed to trace the outbreak back to a notorious animal slaughter market in Wuhan. Positive swab samples of floors, cages and counters also track the virus back to stalls in the southwestern corner of the market, where animals with the potential to harbour Covid …

China: Animal market in Wuhan was epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic, says new study
2 years, 5 months ago

China: Animal market in Wuhan was epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic, says new study

Firstpost  

The investigation required neighborhood-level study within Wuhan to be more certain the virus was ‘zoonotic’ – that it jumped from animals to people Washington: An animal market in China’s Wuhan really was the epicenter of the Covid pandemic, according to a pair of new studies in the journal Science published Tuesday that claimed to have tipped the balance in the …

New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild
2 years, 5 months ago

New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild

Associated Press  

Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab. “I was quite convinced of the lab leak myself until we dove into this very carefully and looked at it …

New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild
2 years, 5 months ago

New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two new studies provide more …

New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic
2 years, 5 months ago

New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic

LA Times  

Not long after the World Health Organization and China released a report last year dismissing the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in a lab leak, scientists from major research institutions around the world noted the paucity of the published data, and advocated for a rigorous scientific investigation into the pandemic’s origins. “In a city covering more than 3,000 square …

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on covid’s animal origins
3 years ago

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on covid’s animal origins

Live Mint  

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. “The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there’s no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the …

Seafood vendor at animal market in China's Wuhan was first known COVID-19 case: Study
3 years, 1 month ago

Seafood vendor at animal market in China's Wuhan was first known COVID-19 case: Study

India TV News  

The first confirmed case of symptomatic COVID-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at a wholesale food market in China's Wuhan, not an accountant who lived far away, according to a new study which points out that the WHO inquiry into the origins of the deadly disease may have got the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. “His …

First known Covid-19 case was vendor in China's animal market in Wuhan: Study
3 years, 1 month ago

First known Covid-19 case was vendor in China's animal market in Wuhan: Study

India Today  

The first confirmed case of symptomatic Covid-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at a wholesale food market in China's Wuhan, not an accountant who lived far away, according to a new study which points out that the WHO inquiry into the origins of the deadly disease may have got the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. “His …

Column: A new research paper adds to the evidence that COVID-19 came from animals, not a Chinese lab
3 years, 1 month ago

Column: A new research paper adds to the evidence that COVID-19 came from animals, not a Chinese lab

LA Times  

Medical staff help a patient walk into the hospital in Wuhan, China, in January 2020 as the pandemic was beginning. A new peer-reviewed research paper points to the likelihood that the COVID-19 pandemic originated at a seafood and wildlife market in Wuhan, China, rather than from a Chinese laboratory studying bat viruses. Worobey’s finding that the earliest identified COVID-19 cases …

Fresh look at earliest COVID cases points to live-animal market as most likely source
3 years, 1 month ago

Fresh look at earliest COVID cases points to live-animal market as most likely source

LA Times  

The Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market sits closed on Jan. 21, 2020. But Scripps Institution microbiologist Kristian Andersen, who has long argued that an animal spillover was more likely than a lab leak, lauded Worobey’s research for “uncovering several new key insights.” The collective evidence “clearly points to the Huanan Market as a very likely source of the origin of …

A timeline of COVID-19’s first weeks in Wuhan
3 years, 1 month ago

A timeline of COVID-19’s first weeks in Wuhan

LA Times  

Sometime in the waning days of 2019, a novel coronavirus began spreading in the Chinese city of Wuhan. It would take several weeks for local doctors and health officials to realize the new virus was responsible for a spate of mysterious cases of a pneumonia-like illness that did not respond to standard treatments. As physicians at various hospitals treated a …

Scientists find 18 more viruses from China's wet markets
3 years, 1 month ago

Scientists find 18 more viruses from China's wet markets

India TV News  

Highlights The origins of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has been linked with a seafood market in Wuhan The first cases of SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged from animal to human transmission at Wuhan's wet market An international team of scientists has identified 18 mammalian viruses, which pose high risk to humans and domestic animals, from China's infamous wet markets. China has maintained …

China's wildlife is a pandemic waiting to happen,' study finds
3 years, 1 month ago

China's wildlife is a pandemic waiting to happen,' study finds

Deccan Chronicle  

Wildlife species sold in wet markets in China were linked to the emergence of SARS and Covid-19. A study of more than a dozen species of game animals traded, sold and commonly consumed as exotic food in China identified 71 mammalian viruses, including 18 deemed “potentially high-risk” to people and domestic animals. “This study highlights exactly why the wildlife trade …

COVID-19 spread through animals or leaked from Wuhan lab? US intel fails to determine origins
3 years, 2 months ago

COVID-19 spread through animals or leaked from Wuhan lab? US intel fails to determine origins

India TV News  

Barring an unforeseen breakthrough, intelligence agencies won’t be able to conclude whether COVID-19 was spread by animal-to-human transmission or leaked from a lab, officials said Friday in releasing a fuller version of their review into the origins of the pandemic. The full report notes that the Wuhan Institute of Virology “previously created chimeras, or combinations, of SARS-like coronaviruses, but this …

Animals carrying coronavirus may infect lakhs of people; pose risk for next pandemic: Study
3 years, 3 months ago

Animals carrying coronavirus may infect lakhs of people; pose risk for next pandemic: Study

India TV News  

Animals carrying coronaviruses related to the one that causes COVID-19 may infect hundreds of thousands of people annually across China and Sourtheast Asia. China's stand on Wuhan lab leak theory In August this year, China had opposed next-phase COVID-19 origins-tracing, saying that it is "inappropriate" that the World Health Organization came up with the second phase of the study that …

Wuhan: New Probe Shows Scientists Who Dismissed Lab Leak Theory Have Links to Chinese
3 years, 3 months ago

Wuhan: New Probe Shows Scientists Who Dismissed Lab Leak Theory Have Links to Chinese

News 18  

Nearly two years since Covid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of the virus’s origin still remains unanswered. Recently, a probe carried out by The Telegraph has revealed that 26 out of 27 scientists who wrote a letter in The Lancet medical journal trashing the lab-leak theory of the COVID-19 outbreak have or had links …

Coronavirus carrying animals sold at Wuhan wet markets for years, finds study
3 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus carrying animals sold at Wuhan wet markets for years, finds study

India TV News  

Animals known as carriers of coronaviruses were sold at local wet markets for years, finds a new study supporting the theory that the Covid-19 is the result of virus jumping from animals to humans. Researchers from the Chinese government's Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation, the University of Oxford in the UK and the University of British Columbia …

WHO team head investigating origins of Covid calls for closer look at China lab
3 years, 4 months ago

WHO team head investigating origins of Covid calls for closer look at China lab

Live Mint  

The Danish head of a World Health Organization-led team that traveled to China earlier this year to probe the origins of Covid-19 called for closer scrutiny of a laboratory near the site of the first known cluster of cases at a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. “It’s interesting that the lab relocated on the 2nd of December …

As virus is found, flow of goods keeps life steady
3 years, 5 months ago

As virus is found, flow of goods keeps life steady

China Daily  

By Zhou Lihua in Wuhan, and Zhao Ruixue in Jinan | | Updated : 2021-08-04 Consumers buy products at a supermarket in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, on Aug 2, 2021. In addition, Hubei and Henan provinces also found new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in the past two days. Provincial health authorities in Hubei reported three new confirmed cases in …

China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' for COVID-19 as virus makes comeback after a year
3 years, 5 months ago

China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' for COVID-19 as virus makes comeback after a year

India TV News  

All residents in China's Wuhan will now be tested for COVID-19, authorities in the city said on Tuesday. The development comes after reports said the highly contagious Delta variant of the COVID-19 has spread to 18 provinces of China, with fresh cases emerging in capital Beijing on Sunday. Speaking at a press conference, senior Wuhan official Li Tao Tuesday said …

China's Wuhan, epicentre of COVID outbreak, to test all residents after fresh cases emerge
3 years, 5 months ago

China's Wuhan, epicentre of COVID outbreak, to test all residents after fresh cases emerge

Firstpost  

Seven locally transmitted infections have been found among migrant workers in the city, breaking a year-long streak without domestic cases after authorities squashed an initial outbreak with an unprecedented lockdown in early 2020. Authorities announced on Monday that seven locally transmitted infections had been found among migrant workers in the city, breaking a year-long streak without domestic cases after it …

China struggles with rising cases of Covid Delta variant, imposes strict lockdown in several cities
3 years, 5 months ago

China struggles with rising cases of Covid Delta variant, imposes strict lockdown in several cities

Op India  

On Monday, the Chinese authorities directed the 1.2 million residents of ZhuZhou city in the Hunan province to stay at home in light of the growing cases of Wuhan Coronavirus. As per a report in Guardian, people have been asked to adhere to the strict lockdown for a period of three days after the Covid-19 situation in the city turned …

China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' as Covid cases emerge after a year
3 years, 5 months ago

China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' as Covid cases emerge after a year

India Today  

Authorities in Wuhan on Tuesday said they would test its entire population for Covid-19 after the central Chinese city where the coronavirus emerged reported its first local infections in more than a year. The city of 11 million is "swiftly launching comprehensive nucleic acid testing of all residents", senior Wuhan official Li Tao said at a press conference on Tuesday. …

China orders mass testing in Wuhan as Delta variant outbreak spreads
3 years, 5 months ago

China orders mass testing in Wuhan as Delta variant outbreak spreads

LA Times  

China suspended flights and trains, canceled professional basketball games and announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan on Tuesday as widening outbreaks of the Delta variant reached the city where the virus was first detected in late 2019. China has not eliminated but largely curbed COVID-19 at home with quick lockdowns and mass testing to isolate infected people whenever new cases …

WHO proposes fresh coronavirus mission to China and lab audits
3 years, 5 months ago

WHO proposes fresh coronavirus mission to China and lab audits

India Today  

The World Health Organization on Friday proposed a second phase of studies into the origins of the coronavirus in China, including audits of laboratories and markets in Wuhan, calling for transparency from authorities. Phase two work would require studies of humans, wildlife and animal markets in Wuhan, including Huanan wholesale market, he said in remarks released by the agency. It …

Covid risks: Indonesian markets discovered slaughtering and selling live bats, rats and dogs
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid risks: Indonesian markets discovered slaughtering and selling live bats, rats and dogs

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Street stalls in Indonesia have …

Not December, first case of Covid-19 could have emerged as early as October 2019: Study
3 years, 6 months ago

Not December, first case of Covid-19 could have emerged as early as October 2019: Study

India Today  

The world first came to know about a mysterious outbreak in China on the New Year eve of 2020. Now, a new study claims that the virus that causes Covid-19 started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before it was first reported in Wuhan province. The first official case of Covid-19 reported in China was in …

Covid-19 origin: China's top virologist Shi Zhengli denies lab leak theory
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 origin: China's top virologist Shi Zhengli denies lab leak theory

Hindustan Times  

Shi Zhengli, the top bat coronavirus researcher at Wuhan Institute of Virology, has defended her institute amid calls for a probe into the origin of the coronavirus disease, including a hypothesis that it was leaked from a WIV lab. The western media has turned full circle from calling Wuhan lab virus leak theory a Trumpian conspiracy against rising China in …

G7 leaders discuss Wuhan lab leak theory behind COVID-19 pandemic
3 years, 6 months ago

G7 leaders discuss Wuhan lab leak theory behind COVID-19 pandemic

The Hindu  

World leaders gathered at the G7 Summit in Cornwall discussed the possibility that a laboratory leak in central China's Wuhan city may have a connection with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the World Health Organisation chief saying all hypotheses behind the origins of the deadly disease remain in play. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that officials "compared …

Covid China: No bats or pangolins sold at Wuhan wet markets before pandemic, Oxford study says
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid China: No bats or pangolins sold at Wuhan wet markets before pandemic, Oxford study says

Daily Mail  

No bats or pangolins were sold at Wuhan wet markets immediately before the coronavirus pandemic started, according to an Oxford-led study. Most of the early theories pointed to bats - but according to the new study, no bats were sold there A menagerie of nearly 50,000 animals was documented by the scientists, but not a single bat was among the …

The red flags on the trail of the virus
3 years, 7 months ago

The red flags on the trail of the virus

The Hindu  

The publication of science writer, editor, and author Nicholas Wade’s well-researched article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?, has set alarm bells ringing about the collusive cover up of the possible leak of the novel coronavirus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Peter Daszak of …

JASPER BECKER: No wonder so many experts say Covid DID leak from Wuhan research centre
3 years, 7 months ago

JASPER BECKER: No wonder so many experts say Covid DID leak from Wuhan research centre

Daily Mail  

Trees and wildflowers blossom during all four seasons in Kunming, which is known as The City of Eternal Spring because of its year-round mild temperatures. As a result of countless stories about the possible origins of Covid-19, China's most well-known bat expert is the Wuhan virologist Shi Zhengli – nicknamed Bat Woman – who visited the remote caves. Indeed, the …

Joe Biden Directs Intelligence Agencies to 'Redouble' Efforts to Trace Trace Origins of Covid-19
3 years, 7 months ago

Joe Biden Directs Intelligence Agencies to 'Redouble' Efforts to Trace Trace Origins of Covid-19

News 18  

President Joe Biden has ordered the US intelligence agencies to "redouble" their efforts in investigating the emergence of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic and report back to him in 90 days, amid growing controversy about the virus's origins from a bio laboratory in China. "I have now asked the Intelligence Community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyse information that …

Coronavirus origin: After more than a year of the pandemic what we know so far
3 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus origin: After more than a year of the pandemic what we know so far

Live Mint  

More than a year after Covid-19 touched off the worst pandemic in more than a century, scientists have yet to determine its origins. Scientists involved in the WHO-led mission identified four, which they ranked in order of likelihood: LIKELY-TO-VERY LIKELY: the virus spilled over via an “intermediary” host species; POSSIBLE-TO-LIKELY: the virus spilled over to humans directly from an animal …

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