China rejects US report's lab-leak theory on COVID-19 origin" Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the international experts have considered the theory that the pandemic might have leaked from...
27 Feb, 2023, 08.44 PM IST
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
China's Wuhan city tests 11.23 million amid coronavirus resurgenceThe results from 10.8 million of the samples are available. The health staffers are still checking and confirming, Li Yang, deputy director...
07 Aug, 2021, 06.43 PM 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
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
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
'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 21 new COVID-19 cases, Wuhan steps up mass testing for infectionsChina's National Health Commission (NHC) said that of the eight new confirmed COVID-19 cases reported on Friday, six were imported infectio...
16 May, 2020, 11.08 AM 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
China's Wuhan city discharges last COVID-19 patient from hospitalThe last COVID-19 patient in Wuhan has been discharged and the hospitals in the epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic in the central...
27 Apr, 2020, 11.48 AM 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
China lifts 73-day lockdown of Wuhan amid sharp increase in COVID-19 casesThe Chinese health authority said on Wednesday that 62 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported on the Chinese mainland on Tuesday, inclu...
08 Apr, 2020, 09.28 AM 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