Investigations into the origin of COVID-19
WHO unveils new team to investigate pandemic
The World Health Organization unveiled on Oct. 13 a team of scientists it wants to investigate new pathogens and preventing future pandemics - plus reviving the stalled probe into COVID-19's origins.
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China sent a strong protest to the United States
He did that during a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
"China is strongly protesting the recent publication of a so-called report on the investigation of the origin of the coronavirus compiled by the U.S. intelligence services," Wang Yi said, according to the official website of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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China rejects need for further WHO coronavirus origins probe
China on Aug. 13 rejected the World Health Organization's calls for a renewed probe into the origins of COVID-19, saying it supported "scientific" over "political" efforts to find out how the virus started.
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Blinken meets WHO chief, supports probe into COVID origins
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Kuwait on July 28 where he pledged his support to the U.N. agency's investigation in China into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
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China Opposed WHO Plan to Establish Origin of Covid-19
In July, the WHO offered to carry out a second phase of research in China, including a laboratory and market test in Wuhan.
"We will not accept such an origin research plan, because in some respects it does not take into account common sense and is contrary to science," Zen Jensin, deputy minister of the National Health Commission, told reporters.
Why WHO will never reveal the origin of the virus? We need a team as for Chernobyl
Namely, numerous experts, many of whom are connected with the World Health Organization, believe that political tensions between the United States and China make that investigation impossible and that the answers they might come to would not be credible.
Ex-US Secretary of State Accused Wuhan Laboratory for Coronavirus
The ex-US Secretary of State said that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was engaged in military development, and in the fall of 2019, several doctors had been ill with a serious illness.
Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there is ample evidence of a coronavirus leak from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. He stated this on the air Fox News.
"They're still performing experiments in Wuhan"
He says there's a load of evidence that the coronavirus leaked from the laboratory.
Pompeo spoke a few days after Joe Biden, the current president of the United States, ordered intelligence to determine the origin of COVID-19 in the next 90 days.
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China rails at Biden intelligence probe into virus origins
China hit out at the "dark history" of the U.S. intelligence community on May 27, after President Joe Biden ordered a probe into the COVID-19 origins which threatens to set the course for relations between world's top economies.
Biden orders review of COVID origins as lab leak theory debated
President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers to the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, saying on May 26 that U.S. intelligence agencies are pursuing rival theories potentially including the possibility of a laboratory accident in China.