COVID-19 | Wet markets important risk factor for disease spread: UN biodiversity chief
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 | Wet markets important risk factor for disease spread: UN biodiversity chief

The Hindu  

The wet markets, such as the Huanan Seafood Market in China’s virus-hit Wuhan city, are an important “risk factor” for disease spread, the UN biodiversity chief Elizabeth Maruma Mrema has said as she called for scaling up stricter controls on the sale and consumption of wild species globally. “Live animal markets are an important risk factor for disease spread as is the global wildlife trade,” Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Elizabeth Maruma Mrema said on the occasion of World Health Day on Tuesday. She said measures taken by countries to reduce the number of live animals in food markets have the potential to significantly reduce the risk of future disease outbreaks and stricter controls on the sale and consumption of wild species must be scaled up globally.” Mrema noted that these markets also sustain the livelihoods of millions of people and many others rely on wild meat as a critical source of food security and nutrition, including in low-income rural areas. The official underscored that lessons learned from COVID-19 and other epidemics also point to the need for concerted action supported by a long-term vision; “one that enables us to fundamentally transform our collective understanding of, and relationship with, the natural world, to prevent, insofar as possible, future pandemic outbreaks.” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stéphane Dujarric was asked during the daily press briefing about the increasing call by experts, including by U.S. government’s top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci, for wet markets in China and similar wildlife markets to be closed.

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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 …

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, …

Is COVID making a return to China this winter?
1 year, 1 month ago

Is COVID making a return to China this winter?

Firstpost  

China’s leading respiratory illness expert Zhong Nanshan has warned of a minor COVID-19 surge in the winter and urged the elderly and vulnerable populations to get vaccinated as soon as possible Concerned about an increase of COVID-19 infections in the current winter season, Chinese experts have issued an alert and advised vaccination for vulnerable and old groups. The Chinese Centre …

China's 'batwoman' warns there could be more Covid-like 'future outbreaks'
1 year, 3 months ago

China's 'batwoman' warns there could be more Covid-like 'future outbreaks'

India Today  

Known as one of China's best virologists, Shi Zhengli has warned that there is a high possibility of another coronavirus to appear in the future. "If a coronavirus caused diseases to emerge before, there is a high chance it will cause future outbreaks," she said in a study paper written with her colleagues. Shi's team from the Wuhan Institute of …

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 …

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 …

China economy again on bumpy road as Covid infection surge detracts recovery
2 years ago

China economy again on bumpy road as Covid infection surge detracts recovery

India TV News  

With resurge of Covid cases, China economy once again is staring at downfall trend. "If the virus were highly infectious and everyone's life were in danger, the government wouldn't let go.” On Tuesday, the government announced it would relax restrictions on travel out of China and resume issuing passports for tourist travel for the first time in nearly three years. …

China to manage COVID-19 with measures against Class B infectious diseases
2 years ago

China to manage COVID-19 with measures against Class B infectious diseases

China Daily  

Xinhua| Updated :2022-12-27 China will manage COVID-19 with measures against Class B infectious diseases, instead of Class A infectious diseases, in a major shift of its epidemic response policies. Starting from Jan. 8, China will downgrade management of the disease from Class A to Class B in accordance with the country's law on prevention and treatment of infectious disease, and …

In our 'profound interest' that China reins in latest surge in coronavirus infections: Antony Blinken
2 years ago

In our 'profound interest' that China reins in latest surge in coronavirus infections: Antony Blinken

The Hindu  

It is in America's "profound interest" that China reins in the recent surge in coronavirus infections, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said, asserting that there are major implications if the world's second-largest economy remained shut down due to the virus. When asked about the latest surge in COVID-19 cases in China, Mr. Blinken said the U.S. wants to …

China’s Covid-19 spike is a worry
2 years ago

China’s Covid-19 spike is a worry

Hindustan Times  

China is now in the grip of its worst Covid-19 outbreak, having been forced to dismantle its restrictive virus control measures when near-unprecedented protests erupted against the Xi Jinping administration. While other countries completed the first round of mass vaccinations within 2021, nearly half of those above the age of 80 in China – the most vulnerable to Covid-19 -- …

Covid-19 cases in the US surpass 100 million, says report
2 years ago

Covid-19 cases in the US surpass 100 million, says report

Firstpost  

According to health officials in China, Chinese cities are currently hit by the highly transmissible Omicron strains, mainly BA.5.2 and BF.7 Washington: The number of Covid-19 cases registered in the US since the start of the pandemic in early 2020 exceeded a staggering 100 million, Johns Hopkins University has said, amid a sharp spike in caseloads globally and the WHO …

US concerned about ‘new mutations’ of virus from China's Covid outbreak
2 years ago

US concerned about ‘new mutations’ of virus from China's Covid outbreak

Hindustan Times  

The US is concerned China’s runaway Covid-19 outbreak might spawn new mutations of the virus, as the world’s most populous country continues to grapple with the impact of loosening “Covid Zero” protocols that had kept the pandemic at bay. In a statement to Bloomberg News on Monday evening, China’s US embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu said China has adopted “scientific and …

China rushes to build hospital beds, US says covid situation in China a concern
2 years ago

China rushes to build hospital beds, US says covid situation in China a concern

Live Mint  

China rushed to install hospital beds across cities and build fever screening clinics amid a surge in covid cases in the country. We’ve seen that over the course of many different permutations of this virus and certainly another reason why we are so focused on helping countries around the world address COVID, another reason why bringing this to a close …

China Covid toll concern for world given size of its GDP, economy: US State dep
2 years ago

China Covid toll concern for world given size of its GDP, economy: US State dep

Hindustan Times  

The United States hopes that China can address the current COVID-19 outbreak as the toll of the virus is a global concern due to the size of the Chinese economy, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Monday. "The toll of the virus is of concern to the rest of the world given the size of China's GDP, given the …

Some Chinese cities urge people with mild COVID to keep working as restrictions ease
2 years ago

Some Chinese cities urge people with mild COVID to keep working as restrictions ease

LA Times  

Masked commuters head to work via subway during the morning rush hour in Beijing on Tuesday. Health authorities reported Tuesday that five people died in the latest 24-hour period, all in Beijing, fueling concern that the toll could rise sharply after the lifting of most “zero-COVID” restrictions. They also reflect the the difficulty officials face in trying to revive an …

China COVID Surge: Explosion Of Coronavirus Cases, Over A Million Deaths Through 2023, Say IHME Projections
2 years ago

China COVID Surge: Explosion Of Coronavirus Cases, Over A Million Deaths Through 2023, Say IHME Projections

ABP News  

New Delhi: After China's stringent COVID-19 restrictions were abruptly lifted following unprecedented protests under the Xi Jinping regime, the U.S.-based Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation has projected that the lifting of curbs could result in an explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023. This projection comes as China's national health authority is yet to report any …

WHO Chief Asks China To Share Data To Understand Origins Of Novel Coronavirus
2 years ago

WHO Chief Asks China To Share Data To Understand Origins Of Novel Coronavirus

ABP News  

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has asked China for data concerning Covid-19 to understand the origins of the novel coronavirus. The WHO chief said that he was "hopeful" that the COVID-19 pandemic would no longer be considered a global health emergency next year. "We're hopeful that at some point next year, we will be able to say that …

What China’s covid pivot means for its beaten-down markets
2 years, 1 month ago

What China’s covid pivot means for its beaten-down markets

Live Mint  

Risk appetite for Chinese assets surged after Beijing unveiled the biggest pullback in its strict Covid Zero playbook yet, triggering a rally in stocks and sharp gains in the country’s currency. Khoon Goh head of Asia research at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group This Asian FX relief could extend into year end, as investors start to position for a …

Covid outbreaks surge in China as authorities double down on disruptive, repressive curbs
2 years, 2 months ago

Covid outbreaks surge in China as authorities double down on disruptive, repressive curbs

Firstpost  

President Xi Jinping, who secured a historic third term in power, has signalled that China will continue to pursue its strict zero-Covid approach even as the measures have weighed on economic growth Beijing: It is again in China, the zero-Covid policy has now forced the authorities to double down curbs and seal up buildings and lock down cities spanning from …

China shuts down world’s largest electronic market after COVID spike
2 years, 4 months ago

China shuts down world’s largest electronic market after COVID spike

India TV News  

Highlights China’s technology hub Shenzhen ordered closure of world’s largest electronics wholesale market Decision was taken to contain a recent spike in coronavirus cases in the southern city Key manufacturing enterprises ordered to follow a “closed-loop” system China’s technology hub Shenzhen on Monday ordered the closure of the world’s largest electronics wholesale market to contain a recent spike in coronavirus …

Explained | What do we know about COVID-19’s origins?
2 years, 5 months ago

Explained | What do we know about COVID-19’s origins?

The Hindu  

The story so far: A paper in Science Magazine, published on July 26, contained a post- facto analysis that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 occurred via the live wildlife trade in China and established the Huanan market in Wuhan as the epicentre of the pandemic. During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the dominant hypothesis was that animals sold at …

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 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 …

COVID-19 outbreak ‘extremely grim’ as Shanghai extends lockdown of 26 million people
2 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 outbreak ‘extremely grim’ as Shanghai extends lockdown of 26 million people

LA Times  

Residents line up to get their throats swabbed at a coronavirus testing site Tuesday in Beijing. The COVID-19 outbreak in China’s largest metropolis of Shanghai remains “extremely grim” amid an ongoing lockdown confining around 26 million people to their homes, a city official said Tuesday. The director of Shanghai’s working group on epidemic control, Gu Honghui, was quoted by state …

Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years
2 years, 9 months ago

Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years

Associated Press  

BEIJING — China began its most extensive coronavirus lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation’s “zero-COVID” strategy. Shanghai, China’s financial capital and largest city with 26 million people, had managed its smaller previous outbreaks with limited lockdowns of housing compounds …

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 …

Xi Focus: The Chinese way of fighting coronavirus for safety, growth
3 years, 3 months ago

Xi Focus: The Chinese way of fighting coronavirus for safety, growth

China Daily  

Deliveryman Li Yang passes a package to a resident at a residential community in Bayan county of Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, Sept 26, 2021. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core, the country has walked a fine line between virus control and economic reopening, saved lives at all costs, …

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 …

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 …

Covid-19 virus leaked from China's Wuhan lab: US Republican report
3 years, 5 months ago

Covid-19 virus leaked from China's Wuhan lab: US Republican report

India TV News  

The Covid-19 pandemic emerged from a genetically modified virus that leaked from the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to an investigation by the US House of Representatives Republicans into the origins of Covid-19, released on Monday. Once dismissed as conspiracy, the "lab leak theory" has recently gained steam with scientists across the world demanding fresh probes into the Covid-19 …

Coronavirus leaked from China lab, says report by US Republicans
3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus leaked from China lab, says report by US Republicans

India Today  

A preponderance of evidence proves the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic leaked from a Chinese research facility, said a report by US Republicans released on Monday, a conclusion that US intelligence agencies have not reached. The report also cited "ample evidence" that Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists - aided by US experts and Chinese and US government funds - …

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 or not, ‘the desire to eat wildlife’ continues in Asia
3 years, 5 months ago

COVID or not, ‘the desire to eat wildlife’ continues in Asia

Al Jazeera  

Countries in the region moved to ban the sale and consumption of wildlife after COVID-19 emerged, but coronavirus remains rampant and so does the trade. Several Asian countries have passed new laws to curb the sale of ‘bush meat’ and limit activity at wet markets during the pandemic. In Indonesia, the site of Asia’s worst COVID-19 outbreak with more than …

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 …

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 …

Column: Biden’s new inquiry into COVID-19’s origins strikes a blow for open-mindedness
3 years, 7 months ago

Column: Biden’s new inquiry into COVID-19’s origins strikes a blow for open-mindedness

LA Times  

Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with patients and medical workers at a hospital in Wuhan, the first place hit hard by the novel coronavirus of unknown origins. It wasn’t so much what he did — ordering U.S. intelligence agencies to take a new look at the origins of COVID-19, including whether the coronavirus that causes the disease escaped accidentally from …

China says ‘politicising’ COVID origins impedes investigation
3 years, 7 months ago

China says ‘politicising’ COVID origins impedes investigation

Al Jazeera  

Politicising the origins of COVID-19 would hamper further investigations and undermine global efforts to curb the pandemic, the Chinese embassy in the United States said after President Joe Biden ordered a review of US intelligence about how and where the virus first emerged. Biden said on Wednesday that US intelligence agencies were divided about whether COVID-19 “emerged from human contact …

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