Wuhan
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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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China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' for COVID-19 as virus makes comeback after a year
World | August 03, 2021 11:25 ISTAt least 18 provinces in China have even sounded an alarm about COVID-19, as more than 300 domestic cases were detected in 10 days.
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Covid-19 virus leaked from China's Wuhan lab: US Republican report
Science | August 02, 2021 20:19 ISTThe report also raises concern that the lab was conducting "gain-of-function" research in an unsafe environment.
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WHO should inspect US' Fort Detrick lab: China's veiled attack over COVID-19 origin theory
World | July 27, 2021 8:29 ISTThe US and others say that China has not been transparent about what happened in the early days of the pandemic. China accuses critics of seeking to blame it for the pandemic and politicizing an issue that should be left to scientists.
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China begins mass testing for COVID-19 cases in Nanjing city after new virus cluster
World | July 21, 2021 20:57 ISTNanjing, which has a population of more than 9.3 million, plans to carry out city-wide nucleic acid testing after the campaign in Jiangning district concludes, the municipal government said.
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Did US help fund research at Chinese lab likely behind COVID outbreak? Fauci, Senator Paul argue
World | July 21, 2021 16:58 ISTSenator Paul suggested that Dr Fauci had lied before Congress when in May he denied that the National Institutes of Health funded so-called “gain of function” research — the practice of enhancing a virus in a lab to study its potential impact in the real world — at a Wuhan virology lab.
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US officials consider COVID lab leak theory as credible as natural origins narrative
World | July 18, 2021 9:09 ISTIn recent months, the lab-leak theory has gained great traction pushing US President Joe Biden to give the American intelligence team a 90-day deadline to find answers into the virus origin.
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Chinese researchers removed key COVID gene data from NIH database
World | June 25, 2021 11:37 ISTJesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, described the removal of the sequencing data in a new paper posted online on bioRxiv on Tuesday.
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Wuhan lab's classified information hampering search for COVID-19 origins: Report
World | June 23, 2021 8:08 ISTThe Wuhan lab has drawn global scrutiny because of its research on bat coronaviruses in the city where the pandemic began. The lab leak theory has recently become the subject of renewed public debate after several prominent scientists called for a full investigation into the origins of the virus.
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Thousands of wild animals were sold in Wuhan markets months before COVID-19 outbreak: Report
World | June 10, 2021 8:04 ISTThe wild animals that were sold included mammals such as civet cats, mink and raccoon dogs, which are known to be susceptible to coronaviruses, along with squirrels, badgers, foxes and hedgehogs, as well as birds and reptiles.
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Did China's 'Bat Woman' receive $600K from US for coronavirus work?
World | June 05, 2021 13:00 ISTAt a US Senate hearing on May 11, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) said that scientists in the US have long known how to mutate animal viruses to infect humans.
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Wuhan lab head and US expert flagged Covid19 risk in 2015: Report
Health | June 04, 2021 22:53 ISTThe head of China's Wuhan virology lab, also called as the 'bat woman', and an expert from the University of North Carolina in the US, had in a paper published in 2015 flagged the dangers of their gain-of-function experiment of a novel coronavirus which could infect human cells, media reports said.
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EXPLAINER: What the WHO coronavirus experts learned in Wuhan
World | February 10, 2021 21:40 ISTA World Health Organization team is leaving China on Wednesday after gaining some new insights into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide — but with the major questions still unanswered.
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WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab
World | February 09, 2021 17:49 ISTThe Wuhan Institute of Virology has collected extensive virus samples, leading to allegations that it may have caused the original outbreak by leaking the virus into the surrounding community.
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WHO team visits Wuhan research lab - center of speculation over origins of coronavirus
World | February 03, 2021 9:43 ISTOne of China’s top virus research labs, the institute built an archive of genetic information about bat coronaviruses after the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. That has led to unproven allegations that it may have a link to the original outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan in late 2019.
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China pushes fringe theories on pandemic origins, virus
World | January 25, 2021 13:57 ISTThe Communist Party sees the WHO investigation as a political risk because it focuses attention on China’s response, said Jacob Wallis, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
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Was the coronavirus made in a Wuhan lab?
News | January 19, 2021 20:20 ISTWatch our special report on connection between coronavirus and china's wuhan.
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China ready to receive WHO experts to probe COVID-19 origin but still silent on timeline
World | January 09, 2021 12:40 ISTIn a rare instance of criticism from the global body, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is often accused of being pro-China, in a media conference in Geneva on Tuesday had expressed disappointment over China not finalising the necessary permissions for the experts team's arrival.
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China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins
World | December 30, 2020 12:19 ISTResearch into COVID-19’s origins is critical to the prevention of future pandemics. Although a World Health Organization international team plans to visit China in early January to investigate what started the pandemic, its members and agenda had to be approved by China.
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WHO to investigate Covid-19 origins in China's Wuhan
World | December 17, 2020 8:36 ISTA team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
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