wuhan-covid-19 | ABS-CBN News

Covid lab leak theory needs more research: WHO advisors

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 10 07:37 AM

Scientists advising the World Health Organization on how to move forward investigating the origins of Covid-19 said Thursday further studies were needed into whether the disease escaped from a lab. Read more »

China boosts bed spaces as Omicron outbreak spreads

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 16 01:55 PM

China has moved to free up hospital beds as officials on Wednesday reported thousands of new cases from an Omicron-led coronavirus outbreak. Read more »

Sinopharm COVID-19 booster weaker vs Omicron: study

South China Morning Post
Posted at Dec 21 08:21 AM

A Covid-19 vaccine booster shot by China's Sinopharm showed significantly weaker neutralizing activity against the Omicron variant than for an older coronavirus strain from Wuhan, Chinese researchers found. Read more »

TIMELINE: Key moments of COVID-19 pandemic

Reuters
Posted at Dec 20 11:27 AM

The upcoming New Year's Eve will mark the second anniversary of the first reported COVID-19 case in Wuhan, China. Read more »

China's Wuhan completes citywide COVID tests on 11 million residents

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 09 08:05 AM

Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Sunday said they had completed citywide testing of more than 11 million people for COVID-19 after a resurgence of cases more than a year after the coronavirus first emerged there. 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 »

Masks off, mortarboards on: Wuhan sheds COVID-19 for mass graduation

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 15 02:15 PM

BEIJING— A huge red banner welcomed more than 11,000 students in Wuhan for a massive graduation ceremony over a year after the city was battered by the first global outbreak of COVID-19.    Read more »

Thousands of wild animals sold in Wuhan markets months before COVID-19 outbreak -report

Simone McCarthy, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jun 10 01:19 PM

Findings by Chinese and British researchers highlight scale of trade in wild species and the poor conditions in which they were kept. The animals on sale include species known to be susceptible to coronaviruses – such as civet cats, mink and raccoon dogs – but not bats or pangolins. 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 »

China pledges 300,000 vaccine doses for UN peacekeepers

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 16 08:58 AM

UNITED NATIONS - China will give United Nations peacekeeping troops 300,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine, the Chinese diplomatic mission to the UN said Monday, bolstering the 200,000 doses already pledged by India to protect 100,000 soldiers and police officers deployed in peace missions. 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »