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Wuhan market where virus spotted in early stage may be demolished

Kyodo News
Posted at Apr 09 11:23 AM

A market in the central China city of Wuhan, where many people were confirmed to have contracted the novel coronavirus in the initial stage of the outbreak in late 2019, is expected to be demolished, the nation's media reported Thursday. Read more »

Scientists call for new probe into COVID-19 origins - with or without China

Reuters
Posted at Apr 08 01:15 PM

In an open letter, 24 scientists and researchers from Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan said the study was tainted by politics.   Read more »

COVID-19: Report on WHO-led Wuhan mission leaves unanswered questions

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 03 08:32 AM

The 300-page-plus document provides interesting hints of information: there was a rise in acute respiratory illness among the elderly in Wuhan in early December 2019, several weeks before doctors identified an outbreak in the city, and more than half of Wuhan’s earliest known cases had some connection to food markets. Read more »

Draft WHO coronavirus report pours cold water on lab-leak theory - report

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 30 01:04 PM

The virus that causes COVID-19 most likely passed from bats into humans via an intermediary animal, but it is “extremely unlikely” that it came from a laboratory leak, according to a draft of a highly anticipated World Health Organization investigation report into the origins of the virus.   Read more »

WHO report says 'very low' chance of frozen food COVID-19 origin

Jing Xuan Teng, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 30 07:46 AM

The chances that COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan because of imported frozen food are "very low", international health experts said Monday, casting doubt on one of the main theories China has embraced for the cause of the first coronavirus outbreak in late 2019. Read more »

First Chinese COVID-19 cases may have been infected in October 2019, says new research

Josephine Ma, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Mar 23 01:30 PM

A study published in the journal Science last week said these cases would have been difficult to detect and the disease would have established a firm foothold among the human population before it was identified.   Read more »

WHO investigators to scrap interim report on probe of COVID-19 origins - report

Reuters
Posted at Mar 05 02:06 PM

No further information was immediately available about the reasons for the delay in publishing the findings of the WHO-led mission to the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected in late 2019.   Read more »

Coronavirus: US, China should join forces to find the animal host, top Chinese scientists say

Josephine Ma, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 02 01:11 PM

Collaboration is also needed to speed vaccine manufacture and distribution, they add. The call comes after the US rejected the findings from the World Health Organization mission to Wuhan because China did not offer ‘requisite transparency’. Read more »

Hunt for COVID-19 origins: questions surface over China’s testing of suspect animals

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 26 01:12 PM

In the hunt for the source of the COVID-19, the World Health Organization confirmed China identified supply chains for animals sold in Wuhan, where the first known outbreak occurred, a move based on the view the virus may have first infected traded wildlife.   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 »

American on WHO COVID-19 investigation team dismisses US intelligence

Jacob Fromer, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 11 03:55 PM

Peter Daszak suggests President Joe Biden was only skeptical about the WHO’s trip to Wuhan because he ‘has to look tough on China.' Observers have criticized the inclusion of Daszak as the WHO mission’s sole American because he was affiliated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.  Read more »

Coronavirus: China’s COVID-19 origin theory includes pig heads and frozen fish

Simone McCarthy and Linda Lew, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 11 01:31 PM

The WHO investigation team puts forward cold-chain transmission as a lead despite skepticism. Beijing has used the theory to support its claims that the virus may have not originated in China. Read more »

WHO Wuhan COVID-19 mission over but much more work still to do

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 11 12:50 PM

A World Health Organization (WHO) mission to China to investigate the origins of COVID-19 has ended without a clear answer, but research further afield could help fill in some of the gaps, according to members of the team.   Read more »

COVID origins still a mystery as WHO-China probe ends

Laurie Chen with Agence France-Presse bureaus
Posted at Feb 10 07:04 AM

A much-anticipated inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic wrapped up its mission in China on Tuesday with no breakthrough discovery, as investigators ruled out a theory that COVID-19 came from a lab while failing to identify which animal may have passed it to humans.   Read more »

WHO team visits Chinese virus lab in Wuhan

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 03 11:00 AM

World Health Organization inspectors visited a laboratory in China's Wuhan city on Wednesday that American officials suggested could have been the source of the coronavirus.   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 »

WHO slams critics of COVID-19 origins probe

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 02 06:39 AM

The World Health Organization on Monday blasted critics of its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and challenged those claiming to know better to come forward with the smoking gun.   Read more »

WHO team visits Wuhan market where first COVID infections detected

Martin Quin Pollard and Thomas Peter, Reuters
Updated as of Jan 31 08:44 PM

A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 visited Huanan market on Sunday, the now-shuttered wholesale seafood centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the new coronavirus was initially detected. Read more »

WHO investigators visit hospital that treated first COVID-19 cases in China’s ground zero Wuhan

Holly Chik, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 30 01:34 AM

A World Health Organization team currently in China to probe the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited a hospital in Wuhan and talked to doctors who treated some of the first known COVID-19 patients.   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 »