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China rejects need for further WHO coronavirus origins probe
Updated : 4 years, 7 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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21 killed, 4 missing as heavy rain hits central China
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Wuhan [China], August 13 (ANI/Xinhua): Twenty-one people were killed and four others missing as heavy rain lashed a township in central China's Hubei Province from Wednesday to Thursday, local authorities said Friday.
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In search of COVID-19 origin, US intel agencies scour massive genetic data
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [United States], August 6 (ANI): In the search of COVID-19 origin, the US intelligence agencies have accessed massive genetic data from China's controversial Wuhan lab and are scouring them to find the origin of the pandemic, a US media report said on Thursday.
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China dismisses Republican report on origin of COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 6 (ANI): China dismissed Republican lawmakers report which accused Beijing of one the 'greatest cover-ups in human history' over the origins of COVID-19, reported Daily Mail.
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Beijing International Film Festival delayed due to new COVID-19 outbreaks
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 6 (ANI): The Beijing International Film Festival has been postponed due to new COVID-19 outbreaks in China, Sputnik reported citing the event's official statement on Thursday.
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China's Wuhan to test all residents as COVID-19 cases emerge after a year
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Wuhan [China], August 3 (ANI): Wuhan city in Central China's Hubei province on Tuesday announced that it will test the city's entire population of 11 million for the coronavirus virus in wake of the recent surge in COVID-19 cases.
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Delta strain breaks Chinese COVID-19 firewall
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 2 (ANI): China is facing its biggest Covid outbreak since the disease first emerged there in late 2019, with the Delta variant now spreading far and wide.
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Republican report states COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan lab in China
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 2 (ANI): A Republican lawmaker's report investigating the origins of COVID-19 released on Monday has concluded that the pandemic outbreak stemmed from a genetically modified virus that leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, first detected in December 2019.
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Netherlands's Arnhem city breaks ties with Wuhan over China's handling of
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Arnhem [Netherlands] July 23 (ANI): Terming Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs as 'genocide', Netherland's Arnhem city broke cooperation chains with their sister city of Wuhan.
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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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India's first COVID-19 patient tests positive again
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Thrissur (Kerala) [India], July 13 (ANI): India's first COVID-19 patient, a medical student who was tested positive on her return from Wuhan in China last year has again tested positive for coronavirus infection.
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