[Nataliia Shulga/Al Jazeera] Sun 12 March 2023: Scientists lean towards a natural spillover from animals, but China’s opacity means a lab leak can’t be ruled out. Three years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, questions linger about the origins of the virus that shut down borders, forced humanity […]
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Sun 05 March 2023: Former British Health Secretary Matt Hancock is continuing to face criticism because of the leak of WhatsApp messages sent between him and other ministers and officials at the height of the Covid pandemic. The messages, which were leaked by the Daily Telegraph, now show that Hancock wanted to announce a new virus variant […]
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Sun 05 March 2023: Bulgaria is destroying large quantities of expired Covid-19 vaccine doses and has no plans to replenish its stocks, the EU country’s health care chief said on Saturday. “At this point, there are no vaccinators at all,” caretaker Health Minister Assen Medzhdiev said in an interview on state television in Sofia. Having already destroyed “huge quantities” […]
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Sat 04 March 2023: Following claims by the United States that the virus was probably leaked from a Chinese laboratory and which have prompted furious denials from Beijing, the World Health Organization has urged all nations to reveal what they know about the origins of COVID-19. This week, US Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher […]
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Wed 01 March 2023: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Tuesday that the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic likely came from a laboratory in China. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray in a statement posted on Twitter. […]
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Tue 28 February 2023: A campaign group has argued that the United Kingdom should address how structural racism affected the death toll in all inquiries into how the government handled the pandemic. People of ethnic minority backgrounds died at a much higher rate than white Britons during the global health crisis. Racism. Civil rights groups […]
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Mon 27 February 2023: Investigations into the origins of a virus that has now killed nearly 7 million people have been hampered by politics and a lack of access and transparency. COVID-19 was probably the result of a leak from a laboratory, according to a newly updated classified report from the United States Department of […]
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Fri 24 February 2023: The detection of positive Covid cases has dropped, according to Chinese health officials, who also claimed that the pandemic had “basically” ended. The authorities, speaking at a news event, assured that China’s “major conclusive triumph” over the coronavirus has set an example of counteraction and control for populous nations, as reported […]
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Fri 17 February 2023: A new study has claimed that the face masks which was worn by people round the clock to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus did ‘little to nothing’ to stop the transmission. A new scientific review titled “Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses” claimed that the face masks […]
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Sat 28 January 2023: Japan has recorded more than 10,000 deaths from COVID-19 in January, the highest monthly tally since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday, citing prefectural data. A total of 252 people died from COVID-19 in Japan over the past 24 hours, bringing this month’s […]
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