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China blames US for origin of COVID-19 after Trump's allegation
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The Chinese government has said that "substantial evidence" suggested that COVID might have emerged from the US earlier than the outbreak in China, while insisting the lab leak theory was "extremely unlikely" in a white paper.
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CIA assesses COVID-19 likely originated from lab leak in China, not natura
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has assessed the virus that COVID-19 more likely originated from an accidential lab leak in China and not naturally, according to the statement released by the agency on Saturday.
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CIA tried to 'cover up' findings that COVID lab leak was likely, reveal
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A new whistlesblower testimony has alleged that in a letter sent to the chief of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns on Tuesday, a senior CIA officer told House committee leaders that his agency tried to pay off six analysts who discovered SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in a Wuhan
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Report cites 10 reasons strengthening Covid 'lab leak theory'
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"At this point, the only people who believe Covid did not leak from a Wuhan lab are diehards with I (Heart) Fauci bumper stickers. The evidence is clear: The pandemic was the result of irresponsible science. Here are 10 reasons why," Makary stated in his NY Post piece.
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China emerging as source of COVID-19, laboratory leak theory gaining tract
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In the latest development, some international researchers analyzed the early data of the COVID-19 pandemic uploaded by Chinese scientists to foreign databases and have found traces of raccoon dogs during the spread of COVID-19 to humans.
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FBI chief confirms Covid-19 originated from lab incident in Wuhan
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed that the Bureau has assessed that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a lab incident in Wuhan, China," tweeted FBI.
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US Energy Dept concludes lab leak caused Covid-19 pandemic
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Energy Department now joins the Federal Bureau of Investigation in saying the virus likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory, reported WSJ.
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COVID-19: China hits back at WHO, calls 'lab leak' probe a 'lie'
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 12 (ANI): After the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly recommended a deeper investigation into whether the COVID outbreak was a result of a leak from a Chinese laboratory, the country has hit back at the UN health organization and called the theory "politically mo
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China rejects need for further WHO coronavirus origins probe
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 13 (ANI): China has opposed next-phase COVID-19 origins-tracing, saying that it is "inappropriate" that the World Health Organization (WHO) came up with the second phase of the study that focused on a lab-leak theory.
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US officials consider COVID lab leak theory as credible as natural origins
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 18 (ANI): US officials overseeing an intelligence review into the origins of COVID-19 consider the theory of virus accidentally escaping from a lab in Wuhan as equally plausible as the possibility that it emerged naturally in the wild.
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China deleted COVID-19 data in possible cover-up: Report
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 24 (ANI): Amid the resurgence of lab leak theory of COVID-19, a new report has revealed that China deleted early coronavirus data in a possible bid to conceal its origins -- hence impeding the World Health Organization's investigation's (WHO) probe of the virus.
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Most Americans believe in COVID-19 lab leak theory: Poll
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 24 (ANI): A total of sixty per cent of US citizens believe that the coronavirus was created in the Wuhan laboratory in China and then leaked, according to a media poll.
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