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US terms China's position on COVID-19 origin probe 'dangerous'
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 23 (ANI): After China rejected the second phase of the World Health Organisation (WHO) probe, the United States on Friday accused Beijing of "stonewalling" the study of origins of COVID-19.
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China declines to take part in WHO-led COVID-19 investigation
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China] July 22 (ANI): China has declined the World Health Organisation's proposal to participate in the second phase investigation of the COVID-19 origin study, a top Chinese official informed on Thursday.
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Growing calls to probe COVID-19 origin clouds China's celebration of CCP c
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 1 (ANI): As China has geared up to celebrate the 100th founding anniversary of Chinese Communist Party, growing calls for a fresh investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, which originated from the country's Wuhan Institute of Virology, continues to plague the
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China's central role in stalling investigation on COVID-19 origins exposed
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 27 (ANI): Calls for a fresh investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus, which has killed millions of people and shattered the global economy, continue to grow with China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) at the centre of global scrutiny.
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British scientist from WHO team in China's Wuhan recused from UN-backed co
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 24 (ANI): In a move that has thickened the plot surrounding the lab leak theory on COVID-19 origins, Dr Peter Daszak, the British member of the World Health Organization (WHO) mission in China's Wuhan, has been recused from the UN-backed Commission work on the origins o
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Wuhan lab's classified information hampering search for COVID-19 origins
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 23 (ANI): Amid mounting pressure over calls for a fresh probe into the origins of COVID-19, a review of Wuhan Institute of Virology's public records and internal guidelines have revealed the existence of unspecified classified projects and discussion of the lab's respon
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China will face 'international isolation' if it doesn't cooperate on COVID
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 21 (ANI): China will face 'isolation in the international community' if Beijing does not cooperate with a further probe into the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, said US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday.
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China must act responsibly regarding transparency on COVID-19 origins, say
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 14 (ANI): After the conclusion of the much-awaited Group of Seven (G7) meeting in the UK, US President Joe Biden on Sunday called on China to act more responsibly in terms of international norms on human rights and transparency concerning the origins of COVID-19.
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WHO's Covid-19 origin probe 'highly deficient', says Blinken
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 14 (ANI): The World Health Organization's first phase of study on the origins of COVID-19 pandemic is "highly deficient", said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday (local time) and added that leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) countries will insist China
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G7 leaders call for probe into origins of COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 13 (ANI): The G7 leaders on Sunday called for a "timely, transparent, expert-led, and science-based WHO-convened" investigation into the origins of COVID-19, including, as recommended by the experts' report, in China.
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UK, US back 'timely, transparent' WHO-convened COVID-19 origins study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 11 (ANI): The United States and the United Kingdom on Thursday extended support to a "timely, transparent and evidence-based independent process" for the next phase of the WHO-convened COVID-19 origins study, including in China.
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US report on COVID-19 origins finds lab leak theory 'plausible', calls for
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 8 (ANI): Amid widespread calls for a fresh probe into the origins of the coronavirus in China's Wuhan, a report on the origins of COVID-19 by a US government national laboratory concluded that the hypothesis claiming that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan is "plausib
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