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7 cities with the most CCTV cameras in the world
World | December 25, 2024 21:47 ISTTake a look at the world's seven most surveilled cities (cameras per square mile). According to a study, lawfulness has improved by 50 pc across the cities. Police officers admitted to utilising surveillance camera data when investigating crimes, making it much simpler to conduct thorough probe.
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China's Wuhan market was epicentre of COVID-19 outbreak, new study provides concrete evidence
World | September 19, 2024 23:58 ISTScientists discovered that, at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, where the first clusters of Covid-19 were detected, hundreds of samples taken from swabs of the walls, floors, and machines were scraped.
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SHOCKING! Wuhan researcher exposes China, claims 'Covid-19 was engineered as bioweapon'
World | June 28, 2023 17:51 ISTIn the 26-minute interview, Chao Shao shared an anecdote about how another Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher, Shan Chao, admitted that his superior gave him four coronavirus strains and asked him to test them to determine which one was best able to infect as many species as possible.
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US President Joe Biden signs bill on Covid-19 origins declassification
News | March 21, 2023 10:12 ISTUS President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill Monday that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of Covid-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic.
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Has WHO quietly shelved investigation into COVID-19 origins?
World | February 15, 2023 16:57 ISTCOVID-19 origins: Research into the root cause of coronavirus outbreak was important as it could have helped scientists prepare better to tackle any such future outbreaks.
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Covid was man-made virus, claims ex-Wuhan lab scientist
World | December 16, 2022 12:47 ISTCovid leaked from Wuhan: Epidemiologist Andrew Huff in his latest book 'The Truth About Wuhan' claims that the pandemic was caused by the US government's funding of coronaviruses in China, according to excerpts of the book.
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China-Pakistan working secretly on virus deadlier than Covid: Report
World | November 07, 2022 12:37 ISTChina-Pakistan new virus: If reports are to be believed, China and Pakistan are together working to develop a virus that could be far more deadly that the COVID-19.
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New studies provide more evidence Covid originated in China
World | July 27, 2022 9:07 ISTThe new study mapped cases from January and February 2020 using data from a social media app that had created a channel for people with COVID-19 to get help.
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Covid virus likely leaked from Wuhan lab: WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus
World | June 20, 2022 19:11 ISTAccording to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, where infections first spread during late 2019, Daily Mail reported.
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China on brink of major Covid crisis in two years, over 17 million in Shenzhen placed under lockdown
World | March 14, 2022 8:30 ISTThe situation is such that China is on the brink of its biggest COVID-19 crisis since Wuhan.
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NeoCov: Is latest COVID variant found by Wuhan scientists deadliest of them all? Know what WHO said
Health | January 28, 2022 21:06 ISTThe SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes Covid-19, has mutated and resulted in different variants of the virus, including the latest Omicron. The Delta strain is regarded as the most contagious form of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus to date. The new variant NeoCoV has been discovered among bats in South Africa.
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Wuhan scientists were studying Laos bat viral samples before pandemic: Report
World | November 23, 2021 11:03 ISTThe new evidence gathered from the US government documents under Freedom of Information backs the theory that Covid-19 emerged from bats and that the SARS-CoV-2 virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China, the Daily Mail reported.
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Seafood vendor at animal market in China's Wuhan was first known COVID-19 case: Study
World | November 20, 2021 8:19 ISTThe study states the first patient worked at Huanan live animal market in the central Chinese city, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
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Scientists who declined COVID-19 leak theory linked to Wuhan lab, Chinese researchers: Report
World | September 15, 2021 8:11 ISTOne of the scientists who signed a letter published in The Lancet on March 7 last year rejecting the lab-leak theory had links to Chinese researchers, their colleagues or funders.
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Is Coronavirus a biological weapon? Here's what the US intelligence community has to say
World | August 28, 2021 6:53 ISTThe Director of National Intelligence in a report, prepared at the direction of the president, on Friday said SARS-CoV-2 probably emerged and infected humans through an initial small-scale exposure.
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Coronavirus carrying animals sold at Wuhan wet markets for years, finds study
Science | August 18, 2021 22:12 ISTResearchers 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 in Canada collected data from several markets in Wuhan and photographs from the Huanan seafood market for their research which concluded that animals known as carriers of coronaviruses were sold at local wet markets for years.
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WHO expert ‘had concerns’ about lab close to 1st COVID cases
World | August 13, 2021 15:41 ISTThe Wuhan branch of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention was handling coronaviruses “without potentially having the same level of expertise or safety or who knows,” Peter Ben Embarek said during a conference call in January, according to footage shown by TV2.
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Virus may have jumped from animals to people at Wuhan's Huanan seafood market: WHO Scientist
World | August 13, 2021 9:20 ISTWhen WHO traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Ben Embarek said he was worried about biosafety standards at a laboratory close to the market where the first human cases were detected.
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China: Wuhan completes citywide testing to curb Covid resurgence
World | August 09, 2021 9:19 ISTLast year, Wuhan completed a comprehensive nucleic acid testing campaign, during which it tested nearly 10 million residents in 19 days.
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Comply for new probe: WHO to China amidst US' claim Covid-19 modified at Wuhan lab
World | August 06, 2021 13:55 ISTAccording to the new evidence, scientists at the WIV have been able to genetically modify coronaviruses without leaving a trace of that modification since 2005.
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