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US terms China's position on COVID-19 origin probe 'dangerous'
Updated : 4 years, 10 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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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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Wuhan lab's classified information hampering search for COVID-19 origins
Updated : 4 years, 11 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 must act responsibly regarding transparency on COVID-19 origins, say
Updated : 4 years, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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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WHO chief asks China to cooperate with probe into origins of COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 13 (ANI): World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Ghebreyesus has called on China to cooperate with the ongoing investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 amid renewed call to further probe the virus.
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Chinese researchers find batch of new coronaviruses in bats: Report
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 12 (ANI): Amid renewed calls to probe into the origins of COVID-19, Chinese researchers said they had found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats.
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US report on COVID-19 origins finds lab leak theory 'plausible', calls for
Updated : 4 years, 12 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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Cannot compel China to give more info on COVID-19 origins, says WHO offici
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 8 (ANI): A top World Health Organization official on Monday said that the WHO cannot compel China to divulge more data on the origins of COVID-19.
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Blinken calls on China to cooperate in 'getting to bottom' of COVID-19 ori
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 7 (ANI): The United States needs to delve deeper into the origins of COVID-19 and hold China accountable, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an interview aired on Sunday amid calls for a fresh probe into the origins of the virus.
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India seeks further studies on WHO-convened global study on the origins of
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): India on Thursday supported the World Health Organisation (WHO) convened global study on the origins of COVID-19, saying it is an "important first step" and further studies deserve cooperation of all.
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