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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 …

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New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market
1 year, 9 months ago

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

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 Genetic material collected at a …

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New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market
1 year, 9 months ago

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

LA Times  

Raccoon dogs are seen at a cage in Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo. International scientists who examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a Wuhan, China, market said they found suggestions the pandemic originated in raccoon dogs, not in a lab. Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon …

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The latest in the COVID 'lab leak' theory: What we know and don't know about the origins of the pandemic
1 year, 9 months ago

The latest in the COVID 'lab leak' theory: What we know and don't know about the origins of the pandemic

Firstpost  

Washington: The US Energy Department’s conclusion, with “low confidence,” that an accidental laboratory leak in China most likely caused the coronavirus pandemic has renewed questions about what sparked the worst public health crisis in a century — and whether the virus at the heart of it was somehow connected to scientific research. Scientists who have studied the genetics of the …

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Explained | What do we know about COVID-19’s origins?
2 years, 4 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 …

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Did Covid emerge in notorious wet market after all? Two explosive new studies suggest so
2 years, 4 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 …

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New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic
2 years, 4 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 …

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

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins

Associated Press  

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Coronavirus origin: After more than a year of the pandemic what we know so far
3 years, 6 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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QnA: WHO experts, Chinese researchers to produce joint report on coronavirus origins
3 years, 10 months ago

QnA: WHO experts, Chinese researchers to produce joint report on coronavirus origins

Firstpost  

A team of experts selected by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic returned last week from Wuhan, China, site of the world’s first outbreak. I don’t know if we were the first foreigners to walk around the Huanan seafood market, which is blocked off even to Chinese citizens. The pictures …

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WHO Dismisses Theory That Virus Escaped From Lab As 'Extremely Unlikely'
3 years, 10 months ago

WHO Dismisses Theory That Virus Escaped From Lab As 'Extremely Unlikely'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A group of World Health Organization researchers called the theory that the coronavirus pandemic is the result of a Chinese lab accident “extremely unlikely” following two weeks of fieldwork looking into the pandemic’s origins. That determination was made after “long, frank, open discussions with researchers and management” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology ― the lab suspected …

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Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan, starts fieldwork to trace virus origins
3 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus | WHO team visits Wuhan, starts fieldwork to trace virus origins

The Hindu  

Experts from the World Health Organization visited a Wuhan hospital on Friday as the fieldwork began in a closely watched coronavirus origins probe that will take in a food market presumed to be “ground zero” of the pandemic. The team met Chinese officials on Friday and then left their Wuhan hotel in a fleet of cars, trailed by a media …

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China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins
3 years, 11 months ago

China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins

Associated Press  

MOJIANG, China — Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of the COVID-19 virus. Jonna Mazet, a founding executive director of the UC Davis One Health Institute, said the lack of collaboration between Chinese and U.S. scientists was “a disappointment” and the …

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Wuhan’s seafood market, believed to be the origin of COVID-19, remains sealed
4 years, 3 months ago

Wuhan’s seafood market, believed to be the origin of COVID-19, remains sealed

Hindustan Times  

The Huanan seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, believed by many to be the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, is sealed behind a blue perimeter fence. Huanan seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan remains shut “We are just doing our job,” said a guard in black who ordered a Reuters reporter to delete footage recorded near …

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Wuhan’s COVID origin spot sealed off as city touts recovery
4 years, 3 months ago

Wuhan’s COVID origin spot sealed off as city touts recovery

Deccan Chronicle  

Wuhan: The Huanan seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, believed by many to be the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, is sealed behind a blue perimeter fence. “No other place is as safe as this,” said Lin Songtian, president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, a state-backed group that helped organise the tour. “If …

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