Over 1,500 bat species carry thousands of deadly viruses but rarely get sick, and scientists are only just beginning to understand whyBats possess a unique, preactivated innate immune defense that stops viruses from fully replicating, even after cell entry. This remarkable...
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WHO says it may be 'last chance' to find COVID originsA WHO-led team spent four weeks in and around Wuhan earlier this year with Chinese scientists, and said in a joint report in March that the...
14 Oct, 2021, 11.04 AM IST
US intelligence still divided on origins of coronavirusAccording to an unclassified summary, four members of the U.S. intelligence community say with low confidence that the virus was initially ...
28 Aug, 2021, 09.10 AM IST
Recent evidence points to natural origin of COVID-19, scientists write in LancetThe same team of scientists had last year dismissed the lab leak idea as a conspiracy theory in a report also published in The Lancet."New ...
06 Jul, 2021, 04.51 PM IST
India terms WHO-convened study on COVID-19 origin as 'important first step', calls for cooperation of allIn response to media queries on WHO convened global study on the origin of COVID-19, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagc...
28 May, 2021, 12.22 PM IST
China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins, promoting theories that Covid originated elsewhereThe government is monitoring scientists' findings and mandating that the publication of any research first be approved by a new task force ...
30 Dec, 2020, 04.49 PM IST
US denounces terms for WHO-led inquiry into coronavirus origins"We are quite literally in the fight of our lifetime as COVID-19 pandemic is causing death and societal disruption," Garrett Grigsby, direc...
10 Nov, 2020, 05.34 PM IST
WHO awaits China's nod on list of experts to probe origin of coronavirusIn August, a two-member team from the WHO which visited China completed the groundwork for the probe into the animal source and reservoirs ...
08 Oct, 2020, 05.38 PM IST
WHO team to visit China next week to investigate origins of coronavirusWHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke in January about an agreement with China for sending a team of international exper...
04 Jul, 2020, 01.38 PM IST
India supports move at WHO to seek origin of coronavirusThe two-day 73rd session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the WHO beginning Monday is taking place in the backdrop of growing calls in...
19 May, 2020, 05.38 PM IST
China flaunts French connection to Wuhan lab; Ambivalent on WHO probe into origin of coronavirusAccusing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of fabricating lies over the involvement of the virology lab in Wuhan, Chinese Foreign Ministry ...
07 May, 2020, 05.21 PM IST
President Xi warns against complacency as China downgrades COVID-19 risk levels in all regionsChina has already reduced risk levels in Hubei province and its capital Wuhan -- the epicentres of the virus, while business and factories ...
07 May, 2020, 11.54 AM IST
China asks Mike Pompeo to show 'enormous evidence' of COVID-19 originating from Wuhan labOn May 3, Pompeo said that the US has "enormous evidence" to show that the coronavirus began in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Beijing...
06 May, 2020, 05.46 PM IST
China asks Mike Pompeo to show 'enormous evidence' of COVID-19 originating from Wuhan labChina on Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show "enormous evidence" he claimed to have to prove that the novel coronavir...
06 May, 2020, 04.19 PM IST
China lab rejects COVID-19 conspiracy claims, but virus origins still a mysteryConspiracy theorists have claimed SARS-CoV-2, now responsible for more than 200,000 deaths worldwide, was synthesised by the Wuhan Institut...
28 Apr, 2020, 11.32 AM IST
Lab origin not ruled out as India studying all aspects of Covid-19Sources said that while a conclusion has not yet been made, all aspects—whether it was an experiment in biological warfare that went awry, ...
27 Apr, 2020, 07.13 AM IST
US reports fourth coronavirus infection of unknown originThe latest case is a boy under 18 in Washington State who tested "presumptive positive," local authorities said without releasing further d...
29 Feb, 2020, 01.51 PM IST