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Upcoming WHO report says COVID-19 leak from Wuhan lab 'extremely unlikely'
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 29 (ANI): A report on the origins of COVID-19 set to be released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said that it is "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19 leaked from China's Wuhan lab, according to a source with knowledge of the report.
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China returnee medicos demand facilitation of internship in Nepal
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal] March 23 (ANI): Nepali students, who were brought back after the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan last year, staged a protest on Tuesday outside the Nepal Medical Council (NMC) in Nepal's Bashbari, demanding that the government facilitate their internships in Nepal as they cou
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Research team locates 24 bat coronaviruses in southwestern China
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 15 (ANI): During the search for the origin of the novel coronavirus, an international team of scientists have found 24 previously unknown bat coronaviruses, with four of them related to the strain that causes COVID-19, within a 4 km radius in southwestern China.
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Wuhan wet market most likely origin of COVID-19 pandemic: WHO delegation t
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 12 (ANI): The Wuhan wet market is still the most likely hypothesis for the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to members of a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation to China.
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WHO investigators plan to scrap interim report on probe into COVID-19 orig
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 5 (ANI): A World Health Organization (WHO) team probing into the origins of coronavirus is planning to scrap an interim report on its recent mission to China amid mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington over the investigation and an appeal from one intern
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Japanese WHO expert voices skepticism on China's theory 'virus intruded' i
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], February 25 (ANI): A Japanese expert from the World Health Organization (WHO), who visited Wuhan as part of the investigative team to look into the origins of COVID-19, has voiced skepticism on China's stance that the virus had originally entered the country from abroad throug
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PLA carried out secret experiments in Wuhan, tried to cover up COVID-19 ou
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 25 (ANI): Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been carrying out "secret classified animal experiments" in Wuhan for years, said Mathew Pottinger, former Deputy National Security Advisor (DNSA), while adding that Beijing tried to cover up the COVID-19 outbreak
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WHO believes badgers, rabbits could have spread COVID-19 to humans
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 19 (ANI/Sputnik): World Health Organization (WHO) experts investigating the pandemic's origins suggest that ferret badgers and rabbits, which were sold at a Wuhan market in China, could have played a role in spreading the novel coronavirus to humans, The Wall S
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COVID-19: After WHO's probe in Wuhan, China calls for origin tracing in US
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 19 (ANI): Following the World Health Organisation's (WHO) remarks on the origin of coronavirus in China's Wuhan city, Beijing has now urged the global health body to do an origin-tracing study of the virus in the United States.
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China slams US for accusing Beijing of interfering in WHO's COVID-19 probe
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 14 (ANI): China has reacted sharply to United States' allegations of Beijing interfering in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) probe into the origins of the coronavirus and accused Washington of "severely undermining" the world health body.
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WHO team finds possible signs of wider COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan in Decem
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 14 (ANI): Investigators from the World Health Organisation (WHO) looking into the origins of coronavirus in China have discovered that signs of the outbreak were much wider in Wuhan in December 2018 than previously thought, CNN reported.
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US raises concerns over China's interference in WHO's probe on COVID-19 or
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 14 (ANI): The US on Saturday raised concerns over the possibility of the Chinese government's interference in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recent investigation into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan.
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