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Harbin residents told: Stay home amid COVID-19 outbreak

South China Morning Post
Posted at Sep 29 10:27 AM

Residents of Harbin in northeast China have been told to stay home and avoid unnecessary travel as the city grapples with a Covid-19 outbreak. Read more »

'Time is running out to trace COVID-19 origins'

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Aug 26 02:44 PM

International scientists who took part in a WHO probe into the origins of COVID-19 say time is running out to find answers. Read more »

China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' as COVID returns

Jing Xuan Teng, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 03 01:13 PM

Authorities in Wuhan on Tuesday said they would test its entire population for Covid-19 after the central Chinese city where the coronavirus emerged reported its first local infections in more than a year.   Read more »

China rebuffs WHO claims it obstructed Covid investigation

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 16 07:03 PM

China on Friday rebuffed WHO accusations that it failed to share raw data needed for an investigation into Covid-19's origins, insisting experts were given adequate access when they visited the country this year. Read more »

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before COVID-19 outbreak disclosed - WSJ

Reuters
Posted at May 24 07:00 AM

Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a previously undisclosed US intelligence report. Read more »

Wuhan party chief on track to become Hubei governor

William Zheng, South China Morning Post
Posted at May 04 01:32 PM

Wang Zhonglin caused controversy for saying the city should be grateful to Xi Jinping and the party for coronavirus response but his performance pleased Beijing. Wang and Hubei party boss Ying Yong, who is also tipped for promotion, were brought in amid a purge of provincial leaders at the height of the pandemic. Read more »

Thousands of revelers attend Wuhan music festival

Martin Quin Pollard, Reuters
Posted at May 02 07:38 AM

The festival was making a return in Wuhan after it was forced to be online only last year due to COVID-19 restrictions.   Read more »

WHO seeks next steps in COVID-19 origins probe

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 22 04:15 PM

After an international mission to China turned up more questions than answers about the pandemic origins, the WHO is evaluating how to move forward through a diplomatic quagmire to solve the mystery. Read more »

COVID-19: Chinese scientists find selenium may be a dirty secret behind low infection rates

Stephen Chen, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 10 12:53 PM

Researchers delve into theory that high selenium presence in the soil corresponds with higher human immunity. But scientists say more research is needed and warn of dangers associated with excessive intake and taking selenium without medical advice.  Read more »

Apart from Wuhan, China’s death rates didn’t rise at start of COVID-19 pandemic, study finds

Jack Lau, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 25 04:25 PM

A new study has found death rates did not rise in China at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, except in the ground-zero city of Wuhan where the outbreak was first reported.   Read more »

I was the Australian doctor on the WHO's COVID-19 mission to China. Here's what we found about the origins of the coronavirus

The Conversation/Reuters
Posted at Feb 22 02:38 PM

Our investigations concluded the virus was most likely of animal origin. It probably crossed over to humans from bats, via an as-yet-unknown intermediary animal, at an unknown location. Read more »

Origins of coronavirus: WHO team set to bare details of Wuhan findings

Reuters
Posted at Feb 09 01:27 PM

The team arrived in Wuhan on Jan. 14 and after two weeks of quarantine, visited key sites like the Huanan seafood market, the location of the first known cluster of infections, as well as the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been involved in coronavirus research.   Read more »

Coronavirus: After Wuhan, it’s time for global response reset, says COVID-19 probe chief

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 02 01:00 PM

Helen Clark says gaps in the early response in the central Chinese city and a delayed reaction elsewhere in the world point to a need for change. Every day counts in stopping an infectious disease of unknown origin, she says. Read more »

Author still dealing with backlash over Wuhan Diary on city’s fight against COVID-19

Linda Lew, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 24 07:43 AM

Fang Fang says her book was an attempt to share a truthful, personal account of events in the Chinese city where the coronavirus was first identified. But since its publication in English – it remains unpublished in Chinese – she says she ‘never could have imagined the things that have happened, either the catastrophe that is the pandemic or the online harassment’. Read more »

Pandemic lays bare WHO's powerlessness to carry out tasks: experts

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 20 03:09 AM

GENEVA - The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how underfunded and powerless the World Health Organization is to carry out the tasks the world expects of it, an independent expert panel said Tuesday. Read more »

Timeline: Wuhan, one year after coronavirus lockdown

Reuters
Posted at Jan 18 09:57 AM

China locked down the central city of Wuhan a year ago at the start of the Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest holiday, as it battled to contain the spread of a novel coronavirus. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: January 15, 2021

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 16 04:09 PM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Looking at the fight against coronavirus

Nicolas Asfouri, AFP
Posted at Jan 15 10:51 PM

People on Friday visit an exhibition on China's fight against COVID-19 at a convention center that was previously a makeshift hospital for coronavirus patients in Wuhan. Read more »

WHO experts nasa Wuhan para ungkatin ang pinagmulan ng COVID-19

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 14 09:31 PM

Nasa Wuhan, China ang mga eksperto ng World Health Organization para imbestigahan ang pinagmulan ng COVID-19.  Read more »

WHO team arrives in China's Wuhan to investigate COVID-19 origins

Thomas Peter, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 14 12:58 PM

An international team of scientists led by the World Health Organization arrived on Thursday in China's central city of Wuhan to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus that sparked the pandemic, state television said. Read more »