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The current outbreaks, while still in the hundreds of cases in total, have spread much more widely than previous ones, reaching multiple provinces and cities including the capital, Beijing.
The team has now concluded site visits and will spend the next few days trolling through data and consulting with Chinese experts before presenting a summary of their findings
WHO said that its team plans to visit hospitals, seafoood markets, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and labs at facilities like the Wuhan Center for Disease Control.
The experts said knowing how COVID-19 emerged is critical for informing global strategies to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks.
The WHO team has requested the Chinese officials to provide it with ‘detailed underlying data’ and it plans to speak with early responders and some of the first Covid-19 patients in Wuhan
Last year, two hospitals, Huoshenshan and Leishenshan, were built within days to treat Covid-19 patients in the city of Wuhan
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A World Health Organisation (WHO) that visited China to probe the origins of coronavirus has said that most probably the virus jumped to humans via an intermediary species.
The search for the origins of Covid-19 is likely to be a years-long effort that could help prevent future pandemics.
CDC has detected, isolated the living virus on the outer packaging in Qingdao. In July, China suspended imports of frozen shrimp after the deadly virus was...
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The study shows cats are fighting off the virus with naturally developed antibodies, however, they could be at risk of reinfection.
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The Harvard Medical School research analysed the satellite imagery of hospital parking lots in Wuhan. Also, it studied the data for symptom-related queries on...
As of Thursday, the overall confirmed cases in China were 83,027, including 66 patients who were still being treated, and 78,327 people who had been discharged...
As of Wednesday, Wuhan had 245 people with asymptomatic symptoms were under quarantine.
The last patient in Wuhan was cured on Friday, reducing the number of coronavirus patients in the city to zero.
Zall endured a turbulent 104 days on the road, including being stranded in Spain, because Wuhan was sealed off in January when the coronavirus killed and...
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Coronavirus pandemic is, beyond reasonable doubt, an outcome of criminal negligence on the part of Chinese authorities, writes Lt Gen (retd) Subrata Saha
While Hubei and Wuhan has not reported any new COVID-19 case, four people died in the city taking the death toll in China to 3,281, the National Health...
Hubei province and Wuhan city which together have over 56 million population were kept under strict lockdown since January 23 with a ban on all movement of...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation today on the ongoing coronavirus outbreak across the world and the efforts to combat it.
The global pandemic has now sickened more than 1,62,000 people and left more than 6,000 dead, with thousands of new cases confirmed each day.
Of the 17 cases, 16 were reported from Japan on the cruise ship and one from the UAE.
Globally, the virus has killed more than 3,100 people and infected over 90,000 even as a clear shift in the crisis emerges, with nine times as many new cases...
The sharp increase in cases in Daegu, the country's fourth-largest city with a population of 2.5 million, came as authorities began intensive tests on...
