Search For "wuhan"
Researchers from Wuhan lab sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak d
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 24 (ANI): Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care after they fell ill in November 2019, a month before Beijing reported the first patient with Covid-like symptoms, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Read More
Scientists slam WHO's report, calls for further investigation into COVID-1
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 19 (ANI): A group of scientists have slammed the World Health Organisation (WHO) for their report into the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan and demanded a further investigation.
Read More
Evidence shows COVID-19 virus could have been created in a Wuhan lab, from
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 19 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year and caused over three million deaths and the evidence adds up to a serious case that the virus could have been created in a Chinese lab from which it then escaped, says Nicholas Wa
Read More
Evidence suggests coronavirus originated from Wuhan lab, says Pompeo
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US] May 17 (ANI): The evidence suggests that the coronavirus originated from the lab in Wuhan city of China, said former US Secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, on Sunday, adding that the risk of bioweapons and bioterror arising from the region is "very real".
Read More
12 killed as tornados hit Chinese cities
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 16 (ANI): At least 12 people were killed as back to back tornados hit Wuhan city in central China and Suzhou in east China.
Read More
Two Chinese activists face punishment for posting censored COVID-19 articl
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 13 (ANI): Two Chinese activists, who faced a stringent crackdown for reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, are facing punishment after being tried in a Beijing court earlier this week.
Read More
Beijing's new Covid firewall shores up to keep out COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): China is shoring up its border to fence all provinces and cities to keep out the novel coronavirus after the nation largely banished the pandemic after it first emerged in the city of Wuhan, known as Beijing's new Covid firewall.
Read More
World Press Freedom Day 2021: The unsatisfactory situation of citizen jour
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 4 (ANI): Four citizen journalists were arrested last year for trying to share information about the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. On this World Press Freedom Day, a year after their arrests, they are yet to be free.
Read More
Mississippi, Missouri keep up with lawsuits against China for 'malicious'
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 4 (ANI): Mississippi and Missouri sued China in April last year for 'malicious' role in the COVID-19 pandemic, two Republican states are still keeping up their efforts to hold China accountable for the spread of the virus.
Read More
Upcoming WHO report says COVID-19 leak from Wuhan lab 'extremely unlikely'
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 29 (ANI): A report on the origins of COVID-19 set to be released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said that it is "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19 leaked from China's Wuhan lab, according to a source with knowledge of the report.
Read More
China returnee medicos demand facilitation of internship in Nepal
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal] March 23 (ANI): Nepali students, who were brought back after the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan last year, staged a protest on Tuesday outside the Nepal Medical Council (NMC) in Nepal's Bashbari, demanding that the government facilitate their internships in Nepal as they cou
Read More
Research team locates 24 bat coronaviruses in southwestern China
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 15 (ANI): During the search for the origin of the novel coronavirus, an international team of scientists have found 24 previously unknown bat coronaviruses, with four of them related to the strain that causes COVID-19, within a 4 km radius in southwestern China.
Read More