Suggestions that the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from a Wuhan laboratory were ridiculed a year ago – and yet the media is now embracing the idea, forgetting prior cynicism.
Suggestions that the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from a Wuhan laboratory were ridiculed a year ago – and yet the media is now embracing the idea, forgetting prior cynicism.
China ‘promoting flimsy theories that Covid-19 originated outside the country’ as WHO experts begin their investigation in Wuhan WHO experts begin their investigation in Wuhan into the pandemic’s source State-run media leapt on report that a woman from Milan with symptoms in 2019 Beijing leaders have made repeated attempts to divert blame for the pandemic … Read more
China ‘promoting flimsy theories that Covid-19 originated outside the country’ as WHO experts begin their investigation in Wuhan WHO experts begin their investigation in Wuhan into the pandemic’s source State-run media leapt on report that a woman from Milan with symptoms in 2019 Beijing leaders have made repeated attempts to divert blame for the pandemic … Read more
Researchers have discovered a third new variant of the coronavirus in the U.S. and say it could end up being the most easily transmissible one yet. A team from Southern Illinois University Carbondale traced the earliest appearance of new variant, called 20C-US, to Texas in May 2020. The variant carries several mutations, including to the … Read more
At least three quarters of Covid-19 cases in Britain have been caused by strains of the virus that originated in Spain, France and Italy, according to a study. Government-funded research analysed the genomes of coronavirus samples taken from 16,500 Britons who tested positive for the infection. Results revealed 34 per cent of the SARS-CoV-2 specimens … Read more
At least three quarters of Covid-19 cases in Britain have been caused by strains of the virus that originated in Spain, France and Italy, according to a study. Government-funded research analysed the genomes of coronavirus samples taken from 16,500 Britons who tested positive for the infection. Results revealed 34 per cent of the SARS-CoV-2 specimens … Read more
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that there was ‘enormous evidence’ that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan. ‘There’s enormous evidence that that’s where this began. We’ve said from the beginning that this was a virus that originated in Wuhan, China,’ Pompeo said on ABC’s This Week. ‘We took a … Read more
Four relatives of the bat species thought to be the original source of the novel coronavirus have been found in Africa. The previously undiscovered animals are considered to be ‘sister’ species to the horseshoe bat, which is widely believed to be the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic. Bats act … Read more
The coronavirus may have started spreading as early as mid-September and Wuhan may not have been where the pandemic started, British scientists believe. A team of University of Cambridge researchers are trying to trace the source of the virus by mapping its genetic history to identify the first person who was infected. Geneticist Dr Peter Forster … Read more