A Wuhan food blogger says she was ‘surprised and worried’ by the way other countries reacted to the Covid-19 outbreak because China provided a ‘textbook’ example of how to handle a pandemic. Qiongyao Xie and her husband Jie Yang, who got married on January 19 – days before the city was plunged into lockdown – … Read more
Trump’s CDC director Robert Redfield says he believes COVID-19 ‘escaped’ from a lab in Wuhan and started spreading as early as September 2019 Robert Redfield, the former CDC director, says he believes COVID-19 ‘escaped’ from a lab in Wuhan, China He said the virus may have been circling since September 2019 Redfield made the claims in a … Read more
The theory that Covid-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab has been abandoned by WHO experts investigating the origins of the pandemic, a Chinese scientist says. The joint WHO-Beijing panel is due to issue its politically sensitive report next week following a visit to Wuhan in January and February which raised further questions about China‘s transparency. … Read more
WHO is set to reject Wuhan lab link to Covid outbreak and instead point to source being an animal market – fuelling allegations of a ‘whitewash’ due to close links between the organisation and China Experts say the disease was most likely brought into the Huanan seafood market It was also suggested ‘frozen food theory’ … Read more
The World Health Organization has scrapped plans for the team that visited Wuhan to publish its interim report into the origins of coronavirus. The Wall Street Journal reported late last night that the initial findings from the probe, which took place in China earlier this year, will not be released as previously stated. Instead a … Read more
German scientist says he is ‘99.9 per cent sure’ that coronavirus leaked from Wuhan lab after WHO dismissed the theory German physicist says he is ‘99.9 per cent sure’ coronavirus leaked from a lab Dr Roland Wiesendanger says failure of scientists to discover a host animal, along with safety deficiencies at lab have convinced him of … Read more
China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team’s investigators said. The lack of data potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began over a year ago, after it was first detected in China’s Wuhan. The team … Read more
The head of WHO today insisted that the theory Covid-19 emerged in a laboratory in Wuhan has not been dismissed following a controversial fact-finding mission to China. The investigation to Wuhan, where the first cases were detected, failed to identify the source of the virus but appeared to disregard the theory that it leaked from a … Read more
A scientist on the WHO’s controversial fact-finding mission to China today lashed out at the US and said its intelligence about the origins of coronavirus was ‘wrong on many aspects’. Wading directly into the sensitive politics of the mission, Peter Daszak said people should not ‘rely too much on US intelligence’ because president Joe Biden … Read more
WHO investigators BACK Beijing’s claim Covid did NOT leak from a Wuhan lab and call for ‘no further study into that theory’ as China tries to pin blame on imported frozen meat By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline Published: 10:44 GMT, 9 February 2021 | Updated: 10:58 GMT, 9 February 2021 WHO scientists researching the origins … Read more