China's Wuhan played role in amplifying COVID-19 pandemic, further investigations recommended: WHO advisory groupIn their first report, a WHO advisory group said that key recommendations are provided for further studies needed on humans, animals and th...
12 Jun, 2022, 12.03 AM IST
View: COVID-19, China’s bioweapon warfare strategy and global securityAn issue which needs to be discussed at length is whether Covid-19 is a mere virus having a natural origin or has it been developed in a la...
08 Jun, 2021, 12.30 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
WHO report on Wuhan virus mission expected soonIn a press briefing, Peter Daszak estimated collective scientific research could pin down how animals carrying COVID-19 might have infected...
10 Mar, 2021, 10.49 PM IST
WHO-led team in Wuhan probing COVID origins meet Chinese scientistsThe group is expected to spend two more weeks in China, and will visit the seafood market at the centre of the early outbreak. It will also...
29 Jan, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
How experts will hunt for COVID origins in ChinaThe visit has been shrouded in secrecy: The WHO tweeted Thursday a few details of what they will do, but it's unknown how much access China...
29 Jan, 2021, 09.44 AM IST
China warns against presumptions over COVID-19 origin as WHO experts begin probe in WuhanThe 14-member World Health Organization team of international scientists, who had been confined to their hotel in Wuhan due to the quaranti...
28 Jan, 2021, 08.11 PM IST
China honours 'Bat Woman' of controversial Wuhan lab as WHO team arrives to probe COVID-19 originsOutgoing US President Donald Trump has alleged that the novel coronavirus emanated from WIV before it spread across the world and claimed m...
15 Jan, 2021, 08.39 PM IST
China kicks off emergency coronavirus vaccination in WuhanThe vaccination, available at 48 designated clinics in 15 districts, began on December 24, targeting certain groups of people aged between ...
29 Dec, 2020, 12.04 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
China reports 15 new COVID-19 cases as Wuhan gears up to test its 11 million peopleAccording to China's National Health Commission (NHC), seven new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported on Tuesday of which one is imported...
13 May, 2020, 09.27 AM IST
Amid attack from Trump, WHO praises China for handling coronavirus pandemicNoting that there are zero COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, Maria van Kerkhove, the technical lead for the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme at a ...
02 May, 2020, 12.09 PM IST
COVID-19: China shuts down largest makeshift hospital in Wuhan, last batch of medics leaveAs the number of coronavirus cases abates, China shutdown one of its largest makeshift hospitals built in February to treat the surging COV...
15 Apr, 2020, 12.03 PM IST
After lifting lockdown, Wuhan residents asked to stay home amid fears of rebound of coronavirusChina on March 25 downgraded the risk level of the coronavirus in its epicentre Wuhan from high to medium and resumed bus services within t...
03 Apr, 2020, 03.43 PM IST
China's rearguard actions to arrest COVID-19 spread offer lessons for India: Health expertsIndia's nationwide lockdown is broadly compared to that of China's sledgehammer clampdown of over 56 million residents of cental Hubei prov...
28 Mar, 2020, 01.03 PM IST
China's coronavirus epicentre Hubei to resume domestic flights from SundayChina has said the domestic passenger flights will resume operations in the coronavirus epicentre Hubei province, except for its capital Wu...
28 Mar, 2020, 12.27 PM IST
India to send consignment of medical supplies to China later this week to combat coronavirusChina has said that it needed medical masks, gloves and suits especially for the medical staff attending the virus affected patients. Masks...
17 Feb, 2020, 01.52 PM IST