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China’s Covid whistleblower in Wuhan reportedly freed after three years

Fang Bin was targeted by authorities for reporting on the outbreak of Covid-19 in Wuhan

The Guardian - AU

Plagues, poisons and magical thinking – how COVID lab leak hysteria could be straight from the Middle Ages

The COVID “lab leak” story clearly isn’t going away soon. The theory that the pandemic began with an accidental release of the virus from a lab in Wuhan recurs like clockwork – most recently in a report from Senate Republicans in the US this week.

The Conversation

Covid pandemic likely caused by Wuhan lab leak, US Senate report finds

A 300-page Senate report has concluded that the dominant theory that the virus jumped from animals to humans no longer deserves the ‘presumption of accuracy’

Evening Standard

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Republican report on COVID origins pushes lab leak hypothesis

As U.S. lawmakers continue to seek answers about how the COVID-19 pandemic first began, former Republican staffers are releasing details from their own independent investigations, putting pressure on the Biden administration to declassify sensitive intelligence.

Tribune News Service

Wuhan to Play Host as World Snooker Returns to China

The World Snooker Tour hailed the "momentous announcement" of three tournaments in China this year, including one in Wuhan, as the return of international sport to the country gathers pace. Almost all international sports events were cancelled in China after Covid emerged in Wuhan in late 2019, and they are…

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Wuhan to play host as world snooker returns to China

Shanghai (AFP) - The World Snooker Tour hailed the "momentous announcement" of three tournaments in China this year, including one in Wuhan, as the return of international sport to the country gathers pace.

AFP

COVID May Have Originated from Humans, Chinese Scientist Says

The Covid-19 virus may have originated from humans, CNN quoted a Chinese scientist as saying. His statements came during a press conference held by the Chinese State Council regarding research into the origin of the virus. "The genetic sequences of viral samples taken from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan…

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China health officials lash out at WHO, defend virus search

Chinese health officials have defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out at the World Health Organization after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic and other information earlier

The Independent UK

China must share data on COVID-19's origins 'immediately,' WHO scientist demands

The World Health Organization's COVID-19 technical lead is calling for China to release all its data related to the pandemic's origins.

LiveScience

Suspects in kidnap-murder of Chinese student arrested in Wuhan

The three Chinese suspects in the abduction and murder of a Chinese student in Thailand have been arrested in Wuhan and will be prosecuted in China, police chief said on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

Suspects in kidnap-murder of Chinese student arrested in Wuhan

The three Chinese suspects in the abduction and murder of a Chinese student in Thailand have been arrested in Wuhan and will be prosecuted in China, the national police chief announced on Tuesday.

Bangkok Post

Taiwan, China must do 'everything possible' to avoid war- former president Ma

Taiwan and China must do everything possible to avoid war and it is the responsibility of both sides' leaders to ensure peace, former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou told a senior Chinese official on Thursday.

Reuters

‘Being truthful is essential’: scientist who stumbled upon Wuhan Covid data speaks out

Florence Débarre’s discovery of genetic data online showed for first time that animals susceptible to coronavirus were present at market

The Guardian - UK

Crucial data about the origins of COVID is only now being disclosed. A scientist weighs the impact of the delay

Clearer answers would have taken some of the heat out of the debate around the possible viral origins.

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The Conversation

COVID origins debate: what to make of new findings linking the virus to raccoon dogs

The origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, has long been a topic of heated debate. While many believe SARS-CoV-2 spread to humans from an animal at Wuhan’s Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, others have argued the virus was accidentally leaked from a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The Guardian - UK

Newly released Chinese Covid data points to infected animals in Wuhan

Previously unseen genomic samples suggest animals at Huanan market were potential source

Reuters

Chinese COVID data from Wuhan market gives clues on origins, researchers say

Data from the early days of the COVID pandemic, briefly uploaded to a database by Chinese scientists, gives information on its origins, including suggesting a role for raccoon dogs in the coronavirus reaching humans, international researchers said.

Evening Standard

Joe Biden orders release of intelligence on potential links between Covid and Wuhan lab

US intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: US to release intel on potential Covid-Wuhan lab links; RBA considering rate pause; and London’s ‘racist’ police

Plus: the Nationals’ ‘shocker’ vaping idea

Tribune News Service

COVID-19 report based on China samples puts suspicion back to animal origins

A new analysis of samples taken from a market in Wuhan, China, during the early days of the pandemic are the strongest evidence yet that the COVID-19 virus jumped from animals to humans, some researchers say.

The Independent UK

‘It’s a very difficult thing to pin down’: Did Covid-19 originate from a ‘lab leak’?

Some US government agencies think Covid may have originated from a lab leak, but there needs to be far more evidence to really know where pandemic came from, Josh Marcus

The New Daily

WHO calls on China to end secrecy about COVID’s origins

World Health Organisation advisers have urged China to release all information in its possession about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic

Tribune News Service

China should share raccoon dog data in probe of COVID-19 origins, WHO says

The World Health Organization called on China to fully share genetic data that may help discern the origins of COVID-19 after it appeared briefly on an international database.

Tribune News Service

Raccoon dogs emerge as possible COVID-19 source in new analysis

MELBOURNE, Australia — New data linking COVID-19 to raccoon dogs in a Wuhan wet market provides “important incremental evidence” supporting the hypothesis that the virus originated in wildlife, according to a scientist who has studied the genesis of the pandemic in China.

Fortune

Are raccoon dogs the missing link in the mystery of COVID-19's origins? The answer depends on whom you talk to

New molecular evidence pointing to their presence at the Wuhan wet market tied to COVID's early days is either a smoking gun or a red herring, experts say.

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