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Reporters admit dismissing Wuhan lab leak theory in part because Republicans proposed it
Media top headlines May 31 ABC’s Jonathan Karl saying some journalists have ‘egg’ on their faces over the Wuhan lab leak theory and more round today’s top media headlines Journalists continued to acknowledge Sunday that the media’s longstanding dismissal of the Wuhan “lab-leak” theory was in part due to Republicans pitching it. Once widely cast …
Biden orders closer review of Covid origins as U.S. intel weighs Wuhan lab leak theory
Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on February 3, 2021. Hector Retamal | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON – President …
WHO Wuhan mission finds possible signs of wider original outbreak in 2019
The lead investigator for the WHO mission, Peter Ben Embarek, told CNN in a wide-ranging interview that the mission had found several signs of the more wide-ranging 2019 spread, including establishing for the first time there were over a dozen strains of the virus in Wuhan already in December. The team also had a chance …
NSW vaccination sites revealed as restrictions ease; Treasurer cool on extending JobKeeper for tourist operators; WHO teams begins Wuhan investigation; EU orders inspection of AstraZeneca’s Belgium site; UK expands travel ban list
The hospitals include Royal Prince Alfred, Westmead, Liverpool, Hornsby, St George, Nepean, Newcastle, Wollongong, Coffs Harbour, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga. People in the first priority group include paramedics, emergency department workers, critical care ward staff, health care staff at COVID-testing sites and those administering the jab. Transport workers are also likely to be among the …
W.H.O. Team in Wuhan to Trace Coronavirus
More than a year after a new coronavirus first emerged in China, a team of experts from the World Health Organization finally arrived on Thursday in the central city of Wuhan to begin hunting for its source. But in a sign of Beijing’s continuing efforts to control the investigation, the team of scientists and W.H.O. …
WHO team arrives in Wuhan to investigate pandemic origins
WUHAN, China (AP) — A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries. The 10-member team sent to Wuhan by the World Health Organization was approved …
WHO experts arriving Thursday for virus origins probe
BEIJING (AP) — Experts from the World Health Organization are due to arrive in China this week for a long-anticipated investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the government said Monday. The experts will arrive on Thursday and meet with Chinese counterparts, the National Health Commission said in a one-sentence statement that gave no …
Wuhan citizen journalist jailed for four years in China’s Christmas crackdown | World news
Zhang Zhan, a 37-year-old former lawyer and citizen journalist who was arrested in May while reporting from Wuhan, has been sentenced to four years in jail. Zhang was arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – an accusation commonly used against dissidents, activists and journalists – with her video and blog reports from the Wuhan …
Scientists say strain of coronavirus dominant around the world is different than what was seen in Wuhan
A strain of the coronavirus that was first seen in Italy is now the dominant strain of the virus, a group of scientists said Thursday. In an article published by the peer-reviewed science journal Cell, researchers working with the Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group announced that the new strain “has become the most prevalent form in the …
Crowds at Wuhan clinics fear coronavirus testing could rekindle disease
WUHAN, China (Reuters) – As Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 pandemic began, revs up a massive testing campaign, some residents crowding the test centres expressed concern on Saturday that the very act of getting tested could expose them to the coronavirus. A woman wearing a face mask looks on in front of others …
