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COVID origin | WHO says it’s unclear but lab leak theory needs study

That stance marks a sharp reversal of the U.N. health agency's initial assessment of the pandemic's origins

The Hindu

COVID-19 lab leak theory needs study: WHO

The World Health Organisation says its latest investigation into the origins of COVID-19 is inconclusive.

Crikey

Factbox-What the WHO says on how to find COVID-19's origins, prepare for next pandemic

A panel of experts drafted by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare a framework to investigate future outbreaks has published its first report.

Reuters

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Half of patients hospitalised with Covid have symptoms after two years, study shows

Wuhan research reveals effects of long Covid, with 31% reporting sleep difficulties

Wales Online

Half of Covid-hospitalised still symptomatic two years on, study finds

Research on Wuhan patients reveals effects of long Covid, with 11% still not having returned to work

The Guardian - UK

China’s COVID crisis and the dilemma facing its leaders, by experts who have monitored it since the Wuhan outbreak

More than two years after a deadly strain of coronavirus was first identified in the central city of Wuhan, China remains locked in a COVID crisis. Around 400 million people are currently thought to be living under some form of lockdown across the country. One of China’s largest cities, Shanghai,…

The Conversation

‘Like Wuhan all over again’: As Shanghai protests, China censors

Shanghai’s COVID-19 lockdown has fuelled outrage on a scale not seen since 2020 after the virus first began to spread.

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China won't give up on its COVID zero policy. As a Beijing lockdown looms, experts explain why

Countries such as Australia and New Zealand have given up on trying to eliminate COVID-19, but China still refuses to learn to live with the virus. Here's why.

ABC News

UK-Based Start-Up Working On Next COVID-19 Vaccine Using Animal Feces: FT

DIOSynVax, a UK start-up, hopes genetic sequences of viruses discovered in animal feces will give vital clues for creating a vaccine to help prevent future pandemics, reports Financial Times. The Cambridge university spinout is working on two vaccines that it believes will outlive the currently available Covid-19 jabs, including the one…

Benzinga

Omicron XE is spreading in the UK – a virologist explains what we know about this hybrid variant

As the COVID pandemic has progressed, we’ve repeatedly seen the arrival of new viral variants. Variants of concern, such as delta and omicron, are versions of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) which have acquired mutations. These mutations can provide SARS-CoV-2 with a genetic advantage – so for example, delta…

The Conversation

'Kafkaesque' true stories of ordinary people: inside the first days of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

We have lived through two tumultuous years as the COVID-19 pandemic has swept through Australia. Our Prime Minister Scott Morrison took the lead, for domestic political purposes, in calling for an investigation into the origins of the virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

The Conversation

Covid lockdown extended in Shanghai as outbreaks put economy on the skids

China’s largest city and financial powerhouse is struggling to cope with the country’s worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic in Wuhan

The Guardian - AU

Not again: two years after fleeing COVID in China, Ukrainian runs from war

Two years ago Julia Volok was shocked to experience an angry reception from fellow Ukrainians as she fled home from Wuhan in China, the epicentre of the soon-to-be global coronavirus pandemic.

Reuters

Recombination of two virus variants seen since 2020

The Alpha and Wuhan strain recombinant was the first; the latest is a mixture of two Omicron sub-lineages

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Shanghai pushes ahead with mass COVID tests as new cases spike

The Chinese commercial hub of Shanghai is pushing ahead with a mass testing initiative as it tries to curb a new spike in COVID-19 infections, but some districts were easing lockdown rules in an effort to minimise disruptions.

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Boosts Bed Spaces as Omicron Outbreak Spreads

China has moved to free up hospital beds as officials on Wednesday reported thousands of new cases from an Omicron-led coronavirus outbreak that has put millions under lockdown and raised fears for the health system. The country recorded 3,290 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, including 11 severe cases, AFP reported.…

Reuters

Analysis-China's COVID governance under pressure as Omicron spreads

China's public health governance is expected to come under acute pressure in coming weeks as the biggest wave of COVID-19 cases since the 2020 Wuhan outbreak stretches medical resources, tests the country's ability to contain infections and strains the economy.

Wales Online

Covid resurges in China with multiple outbreaks of Stealth Omicron

The numbers are the highest since the first big outbreak of Covid-19 in the central city of Wuhan in early 2020

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Children more unlikely to produce antibodies

Study comparing adults and children was done when Wuhan strain was in circulation; results may not hold true for Delta and Omicron

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How a viral tweet turned into a queer coming-of-age graphic novel

Two years after sharing a short comic about her birthplace — Wuhan, China — Laura Gao returns with the introspective 'Messy Roots.'

Irish Mirror

Covid-19 'came from single stall at Wuhan market' as Luke O'Neill says 'raccoon dogs' may be the source

Three major studies on early coronavirus infections say it may have come from a single stall at a market in China

The Independent UK

New reports suggest Covid originated in a Wuhan market, not a laboratory

Study says virus jumped from animals to humans at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market

The Guardian - US

Coronavirus came from Wuhan market and not Chinese lab, twin studies say

Two major studies released by scientists but yet to be published in journals say virus did not emerge from Wuhan Institute of Virology

The Conversation

We want to know where COVID came from. But it’s too soon to expect miracles

About two years into the pandemic, we’re still trying to find where and how it all started. Only last week, we heard bats in Laos may hold a clue about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Xi to Meet Putin as Tensions Rise with West

China's President Xi Jinping is poised for his first face-to-face meeting with a world leader in nearly two years on Friday when he hosts Russia's Vladimir Putin, with the pair drawing closer as tensions grow with the West. Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was…

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