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US terms China's position on COVID-19 origin probe 'dangerous'
Updated : 4 years, 7 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, 8 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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Asking China to cooperate on raw data of COVID-19, says WHO chief
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 15 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday called on China to cooperate in the investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, the first cases of which were reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019.
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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, 8 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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Doubts about China's transparency on the COVID-19 pandemic origins piling
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Jesse Bloom, a virologist and professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, discovered the deletion of some early sequences of coronavirus from Wuhan which were missing from the Sequence Read Archive, a public archive of high through
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China deleted COVID-19 data in possible cover-up: Report
Updated : 4 years, 8 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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British scientist from WHO team in China's Wuhan recused from UN-backed co
Updated : 4 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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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COVID-19 pandemic originated from lab leak in China's Wuhan, insists Pompe
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 14 (ANI): Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated his firm belief that the coronavirus pandemic originated with a leak out a laboratory in China's Wuhan.
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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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