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WHO Clears HPV Shot from China’s Innovax to Ease Global Shortage
The World Health Organization approved a cervical cancer vaccine from China’s Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise Co., broadening access in developing countries to a scarce shot that prevents one of the most common causes of cancer.
China urges ‘objective, scientific’ focus for WHO’s next Covid-19 origins hunt
Foreign ministry vows country will ‘continue to support and participate in’ global origins tracing, and ‘oppose any political manipulation’.
Chinese Ambassador: Will WHO experts be allowed to visit US to trace coronavirus origins?
Chinese ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai said there is a need to trace the origins of the COVID-19 virus all over the world and suggested that World Health Organization (WHO) experts visit the US as part of their work.
Mystery SARS-Like Virus Spreads as First Confirmed Case Emerges Outside China
Here's what you need to know.
To the Bat Cave: In Search of Covid’s Origins, Scientists Reignite Polarizing Debate on Wuhan ‘Lab Leak’
Leading virologists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, are demanding a deeper probe into China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology as they try to identify the source of the deadly coronavirus.
WHO urges halt to sale of live wild mammals in food markets
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Tuesday (Apr 13) for a halt to the sale of live wild mammals in food markets to prevent the ...
Scientists call for new probe into COVID-19 origins - with or without China
A joint China-World Health Organization (WHO) study into COVID-19 has provided no credible answers about how the pandemic began, and more rigorous investigations are required - with or without Beijing's involvement, a group of international scientists and researchers said...
Follow-up probe of virus origins expected - WHO's Tedros
Experts examining the origins of the coronavirus first identified in China will follow up on an initial report released this week but details are still not set, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference on Thursday.
Data withheld from WHO team probing COVID-19 origins in China: Tedros
(This March 30 story removes reference in 7th para to the European Union which did not sign that joint statement)
WHO says virus origins report will be released on Tuesday
The head of the World Health Organization said that a long-awaited report into the origins of the new coronavirus following a mission to China where the virus first emerged will be released publicly on Tuesday but that further study is required.
WHO says report on China mission on COVID-19 origins due in mid-March
The findings of a WHO-led mission to Wuhan, China to investigate the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19 are expected in mid-March, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Opinion | WHO Said What About Wuhan?
International investigators ignore the lab-leak theory but investigate frozen fish.
COVID virus could have been circulating elsewhere before Wuhan discovery - Chinese expert
The virus that causes COVID-19 could have been circulating in other regions before it was identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019, a top expert at China's health authority said on Tuesday.
China bat caves need exploring in search for COVID origins, WHO team member says
A member of the World Health Organization-led team searching for clues to the origins of COVID-19 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said work was needed to try to trace genetic elements of the virus in bat caves.
WHO team in China visits Wuhan lab at centre of COVID-19 speculation
World Health Organization investigators visit a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.
WHO team probing COVID-19 visits Wuhan lab, meets 'Bat Woman'
A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization visited a virus research laboratory in China's central city of Wuhan and met with a prominent virologist there in its search for clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHO team visits Wuhan market where first COVID infections detected
A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 visited Huanan market on Sunday, the now-shuttered wholesale seafood centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the new coronavirus was initially detected.
WHO team, on tightly controlled China mission, visits hospital
The World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 during a mission that has been tightly controlled by its Chinese hosts visited a hospital on Saturday in the central city of Wuhan that treated early coronavirus patients.
WHO team in Wuhan visits hospital that treated early COVID cases
A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 on Friday visited a hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan that was one of the first to treat patients in the early days of the outbreak.
China health authority and WHO discuss cooperation for coronavirus origin investigation
China's National Health Commission head Ma Xiaowei discussed cooperation on coronavirus origin tracing with the World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom in a phone call on Wednesday.