Coronavirus Origins

• Origins of COVID-19 still unclear after U.S. intelligence probe, report concludes

  U.S. officials said only China can help solve questions about the true origins of the virus that has now killed 4.6 million people worldwide.

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  Aug 27, 2021
  
• China ‘taken aback’ by WHO’s plan for 2nd probe into origins of COVID-19

  China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, and is rejecting suggestions the virus came from a lab.

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  Jul 22, 2021
  
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• It was ‘premature’ to rule out COVID-19 lab leak theory, WHO chief says

  The WHO chief said there had been a “premature push” to rule out the theory that COVID-19 might have escaped from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan.

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  Jul 15, 2021
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• World Health Organization ill-equipped to probe origins of COVID-19, experts argue

  Numerous experts say that political tensions between the U.S. and China make it impossible for an investigation by the agency to find credible answers.

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  Jul 2, 2021
• COVID-19 origins still need exploring, lab leak theory can’t be dismissed: scientists

  The authors of a letter said a recent investigation into the virus' origins had not made a "balanced consideration" of the theory that it may have come from a laboratory incident.

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  May 14, 2021
• 26 global experts call for new investigation into COVID-19 origins

  "At this point we are no further advanced than we were a year ago," said an Australian expert in vaccines and one of 26 global experts who signed the open letter.

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  Mar 5, 2021
• Coronavirus: WHO boss says all hypotheses still open in probe into virus origins

  The mission has said its main hypotheses are that the virus originated in a bat, although there are several possible scenarios for how it passed to humans.

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  Feb 12, 2021
• Here’s what the WHO’s coronavirus experts learned from their visit to Wuhan

  The team's major conclusions seemed to confirm what most researchers had already surmised about the virus.

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  Feb 10, 2021
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• WHO team to research COVID-19 origins in Wuhan. Here’s what we know

  The visit has been shrouded in secrecy: Details of their itinerary have not been released.

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  Jan 28, 2021
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• Son of coronavirus victim demands to meet WHO expert team in Wuhan, China

  The medical experts are probing the origins of COVID-19 in the Chinese city where the first cases were confirmed, but concerns remain on how much access they're being given.

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  Jan 27, 2021