WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid's originsThe NYT report said that the genetic data was drawn from swabs taken from in and around the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market starting in Jan...
18 Mar, 2023, 12.37 PM IST
New data links pandemic's origins to raccoon dogs at Wuhan marketThe genetic data was drawn from swabs taken from in and around the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market starting in January 2020, shortly after ...
17 Mar, 2023, 02.30 PM IST
Coronavirus was not a lab leak, it came from the Wuhan market, study saysThe take-home message is the COVID pandemic probably did begin where the first cases were detected - at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market...
15 Aug, 2022, 01.25 PM IST
Two years into pandemic, the origin of Covid tormenting the world still remains a mysteryMost scientists believe it emerged in the wild and jumped from bats to humans, either directly or through another animal. Others theorise i...
11 Dec, 2021, 04.55 PM IST
Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID's animal originsLast month, Worobey published a COVID-19 timeline linking the first known human case to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China...
11 Dec, 2021, 12.10 PM IST
Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID's animal originsNow, with the global COVID-19 death toll surpassing 5.2 million on the second anniversary of the earliest human cases, a growing chorus of ...
10 Dec, 2021, 12.45 PM IST
COVID-19 lab leak theory highly unlikely, scientists sayThe authors noted that maps pinpointing geographic locations of the first wave of COVID-19 cases in December 2019, show they initially emer...
24 Aug, 2021, 05.07 PM IST
COVID-19 either emerged naturally or it was laboratory accident, says US intelligence communityWhile two elements of the intelligence community lean toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter - each with low or mo...
27 May, 2021, 10.57 PM IST
The WHO's China mission: Five questions still unansweredWHO team members said they were granted full access to the sites and individuals they requested to visit.
10 Feb, 2021, 04.45 PM IST
EXPLAINER-The WHO's theories about the origins of COVID-19 after Wuhan probePeter Ben Embarek, the WHO's leading animal disease expert, said the team conducted scientific investigations into four main scenarios abou...
10 Feb, 2021, 02.06 PM IST
WHO delegation visits Wuhan market in hunt for coronavirus originAccording to The Hill, Peter Daszak, president of a US-based group EcoHealth Alliance and a member of the delegation, confirmed the visit i...
01 Feb, 2021, 04.52 AM IST
World Health Organisation team visits Wuhan market where first COVID-19 infections detectedThe team arrived at Huanan amid heavy security, with additional barricades set up outside a high blue fence surrounding the market, and lef...
31 Jan, 2021, 04.57 PM IST
'We are not afraid': Wuhan residents say they hope WHO team finds virus originsAn international team of investigators is expected to travel to China in January, the WHO said on Thursday, more than a year after the firs...
17 Dec, 2020, 02.27 PM IST
COVID-19: China reports 37 new cases; Beijing implements wartime measuresThe National Health Commission (NHC) said that 32 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in the country on Thursday of which 28 were do...
19 Jun, 2020, 10.26 AM IST
Coronavirus may have spread in Wuhan in August, Harvard research shows, but China dismissive"Increased hospital traffic and symptom search data in Wuhan preceded the documented start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in December 2019," ac...
09 Jun, 2020, 06.01 PM IST
Wet markets important risk factor for disease spread: UN biodiversity chiefWild animals sold in the Huanan Seafood Market are believed to be the source of the novel coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more than 8...
08 Apr, 2020, 11.43 AM IST
A Wuhan shrimp seller identified as coronavirus 'patient zero'Identified as Wei Guixian, she was selling shrimps at the Huanan Seafood Market when she developed a cold.
30 Mar, 2020, 12.25 PM IST