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Japanese WHO expert voices skepticism on China's theory 'virus intruded' i
Updated : 4 years, 8 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 : 4 years, 8 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 : 4 years, 8 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 : 4 years, 8 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 : 4 years, 8 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 : 4 years, 8 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 : 4 years, 8 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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China refused to hand over important COVID-19 data to WHO officials
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], February 13 (ANI): Chinese scientists refused to share raw data that might bring the world closer to understanding the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, independent investigators for the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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WHO open to all hypotheses on coronavirus origins: Tedros
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 13 (ANI): The World Health Organization's (WHO) team probing coronavirus origins, which is on a visit to China's Wuhan, the first Covid-19 hotspot, will publish a preliminary report next week, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday.
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WHO dismisses 'lab leak' theory of COVID-19 origin in China
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], February 10 (ANI): Following a 12-day visit to China to probe the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan, a team of World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday dismissed the theory of a 'lab leak' of the virus.
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No evidence of coronavirus circulation in any animal species in China, say
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], February 9 (ANI): Weeks after a team of World Health Organization experts launched a probe into the origin of the COVID-19 in Wuhan, the global health body on Tuesday said that there is no evidence of coronavirus circulation in any animal species in China.
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