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

WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues

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 A World Health Organization team looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday visited a market known to be the food distribution center for the Chinese city of Wuhan during the 76-day lockdown last year. The team members were seen walking through sections of the Baishazhou market — one of the largest wet markets in Wuhan — surrounded by a large entourage of Chinese officials and representatives. The members, with expertise in veterinarian, 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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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, …

Wuhan: Chinese scientists were working with military to mutate deadly viruses before Covid pandemic
1 year, 6 months ago

Wuhan: Chinese scientists were working with military to mutate deadly viruses before Covid pandemic

Op India  

Prior to the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were working alongside the Chinese military to create a mutant virus that could be used as a biological weapon. "Scientists in Wuhan working alongside the Chinese military were combining the world’s most deadly coronaviruses to create a new mutant virus just as the pandemic began. …

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 …

‘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. …

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 director says COVID leaked from Wuhan lab after 'most likely a potential lab incident'
1 year, 10 months ago

FBI director says COVID leaked from Wuhan lab after 'most likely a potential lab incident'

Daily Mail  

FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed the agency's conclusion that the COVID pandemic was probably the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China. FBI Director Christopher Wray commented for the first time that the FBI concluded that COVID originated from a lab in Wuhan, China Wray said the virus was likely the result of a lab leak and that the …

’Not afraid of the virus’: Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years on
1 year, 11 months ago

’Not afraid of the virus’: Wuhan turns page on Covid, three years on

Live Mint  

Residents of China's Wuhan said Monday they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of Covid-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus. But life is now back to normal for many across the globe and after almost three years of gruelling lockdowns and mandatory mass testing, Beijing last month …

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 …

Wuhan locks down 1 million residents in echo of pandemic’s start
2 years, 5 months ago

Wuhan locks down 1 million residents in echo of pandemic’s start

Hindustan Times  

A district on the outskirts of Wuhan has been locked down, the first time the Chinese city that saw the world’s first Covid-19 lockdown has imposed such a measure since 2020, underscoring how far the country is from post-pandemic normalcy. Wuhan locks down 1 million residents in echo of pandemic’s start More than two years since the city was sealed …

China’s Wuhan shuts businesses, transport over 4 COVID cases
2 years, 5 months ago

China’s Wuhan shuts businesses, transport over 4 COVID cases

Al Jazeera  

Nearly 1 million residents affected by new restrictions in city where the pandemic first emerged. China’s Wuhan has ordered some businesses and public transport to close after authorities discovered four COVID-19 cases in the sprawling city where the pandemic first emerged. Wuhan’s Jiangxia district, home to nearly 1 million residents, said on Wednesday it would ban large group events and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Revealed: How scientists who dismissed Wuhan lab theory are linked to Chinese researchers
3 years, 3 months ago

Revealed: How scientists who dismissed Wuhan lab theory are linked to Chinese researchers

The Telegraph  

All but one scientist who penned a letter in The Lancet dismissing the possibility that coronavirus could have come from a lab in Wuhan were linked to its Chinese researchers, their colleagues or funders, a Telegraph investigation can reveal. The influential journal published a letter on March 7 last year from 27 scientists in which they stated that they “strongly …

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 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 …

Panic-Buying And Transport Lockdowns. In Wuhan, It Feels Like Early Pandemic Again
3 years, 5 months ago

Panic-Buying And Transport Lockdowns. In Wuhan, It Feels Like Early Pandemic Again

NPR  

Panic-Buying And Transport Lockdowns. In Wuhan, It Feels Like Early Pandemic Again Enlarge this image toggle caption Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images In a dramatic move reminiscent of the first days of the coronavirus in China some 19 months ago, flights and trains in and out of Wuhan have been halted amid a …

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. …

Report reveals Wuhan requested new ventilation before COVID-19 outbreak
3 years, 5 months ago

Report reveals Wuhan requested new ventilation before COVID-19 outbreak

Daily Mail  

Coronavirus first leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan in September 2019, shortly after the Chinese research facility tried to improve air safety and waste treatment systems, a damning report by Republicans has claimed. Republicans in a House committee are compiling a report that seeks to prove the virus was made in one of the labs and escaped sometime before Sept. …

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 …

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

WHO proposes fresh mission to China and lab audits: Report

Live Mint  

The World Health Organization has proposed a second phase of studies in China into the origins of the coronavirus, including audits of laboratories in Wuhan, but there is no sign yet that Beijing would accept a further international probe, diplomats said. China has called the theory that the virus may have escaped from a Wuhan laboratory "absurd" and said repeatedly …

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 …

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 …

Chinese virologist says Fauci emails back her claim that the coronavirus is 'unrestricted bioweapon'
3 years, 7 months ago

Chinese virologist says Fauci emails back her claim that the coronavirus is 'unrestricted bioweapon'

Daily Mail  

A Chinese virologist who was among the first people to suggest that coronavirus leaked from a lab has accused Anthony Fauci and top scientists of covering the leak up. Peter Daszak, right, Thea Fischer, left, and other members of the World Health Organization team investigating origins of COVID-19 arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in February Email exchange between …

Wuhan lab leak theory gets new look with Biden order to determine coronavirus’ origin
3 years, 7 months ago

Wuhan lab leak theory gets new look with Biden order to determine coronavirus’ origin

LA Times  

President Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on May 13, 2021. In his statement released by the White House, Biden said the United States would work with its allies “to press China to participate in a full, transparent, evidence-based international investigation and to provide access to all relevant data and evidence.” Beijing has not …

Wuhan lab researchers sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed: Report
3 years, 7 months ago

Wuhan lab researchers sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed: Report

Live Mint  

Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a US intelligence report. China's foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said on Monday that it was "completely untrue" that three members of staff at WIV had fallen ill. …

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before COVID-19 outbreak disclosed, says media report
3 years, 7 months ago

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before COVID-19 outbreak disclosed, says media report

The Hindu  

Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report. A National Security Council spokesperson had no comment on the Journal’ s report but said the Biden administration continued to have “serious questions about the …

US agencies examine reports of early COVID infections in Wuhan
3 years, 7 months ago

US agencies examine reports of early COVID infections in Wuhan

Al Jazeera  

United States officials are calling for an independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. A still-classified US intelligence report circulated during former President Donald Trump’s administration alleged that three Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers became so ill in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, sources familiar with US intelligence reporting and analysis told the Reuters news agency. In …

3 Wuhan lab researchers sought hospital care before confirmed Covid-19 outbreak, reveals report
3 years, 7 months ago

3 Wuhan lab researchers sought hospital care before confirmed Covid-19 outbreak, reveals report

India Today  

Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the Covid-19 pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a previously undisclosed US intelligence report. A National Security Council spokeswoman had no comment on the Journal's report but said the Biden administration continued to have "serious questions about the earliest …

Did Covid Virus Escape from Wuhan Lab? Staff Sought Hospital Care Before China Disclosed Outbreak: Report
3 years, 7 months ago

Did Covid Virus Escape from Wuhan Lab? Staff Sought Hospital Care Before China Disclosed Outbreak: Report

News 18  

Three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report. A National Security Council spokeswoman had no comment on the Journal’s report but said the Biden administration continued to have “serious questions about the earliest …

Knowing Covid's origin critical for future outbreaks: 18 scientists write demanding broader inquiry
3 years, 7 months ago

Knowing Covid's origin critical for future outbreaks: 18 scientists write demanding broader inquiry

India Today  

Amid a growing call for an investigation of the origins of the novel coronavirus pandemic that has bruised and battered every country on the planet, 18 scientists in a letter have asked for a deeper inquiry into the source of the deadly pathogen. Amid growing pressure from countries, China had in 2020 allowed a team of World Health Organisation into …

How scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses
3 years, 8 months ago

How scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses

Daily Mail  

Scientists studying bat diseases at China's maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan were engaged in a massive project to investigate animal viruses alongside leading military officials – despite their denials of any such links. One leading Chinese scientist, who published the first genetic sequence of the Covid-19 virus in January last year, found 143 new diseases in the first three years of …

WHO team spent 4 hours at Wuhan lab, an hour at wet market to probe Covid origin: Key facts
3 years, 9 months ago

WHO team spent 4 hours at Wuhan lab, an hour at wet market to probe Covid origin: Key facts

India Today  

A team commissioned by the World Health Organization to investigate the source of the coronavirus in Wuhan in January concluded that it was "extremely unlikely" that the pathogen originated in a top-security lab in the ground-zero Chinese city. Here are some key facts about the Wuhan Institute of Virology's lab: HIGH SECURITY The institute houses a lab with a biosafety …

Covid-19 origin: WHO expert says wildlife trade most likely pathway for coronavirus to arrive in Wuhan
3 years, 9 months ago

Covid-19 origin: WHO expert says wildlife trade most likely pathway for coronavirus to arrive in Wuhan

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — The wildlife trade in China is the most likelypathway through which Covid-19 was able to spread from the original animal source, possibly bats, to humans, according to one of the authors of a long-awaited World Health Organization report on the origin of the virus. The report, expected to be released on Tuesday after repeated delays, will …

Animals were likely source of coronavirus, not lab leak, WHO says
3 years, 9 months ago

Animals were likely source of coronavirus, not lab leak, WHO says

LA Times  

A WHO-China joint study press conference is held Feb. 9 at the end of a WHO mission to investigate the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of the coronavirus says transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal was the most likely scenario and that a lab …

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