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Who were the first people to catch COVID-19? - report

The report also claims that WIV researchers were developing COVID-like diseases in November 2019.

 SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (illustrative).
 A man holds boxes from the first shipment of Pfizer's oral COVID medicine arrives at Teva's storage facility.

WHO, advisors urge China to release all COVID-related data after new research

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Letters to the Editor March 6, 2023: Taiwan-Israel

 Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 3, 2021.

Why China's COVID-19 'lab leak' still matters - analysis


China dismisses FBI claim COVID likely caused by Wuhan lab leak

China says the FBI is devoid of credibility in response to a claim that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely the result of a Wuhan lab leak.

 Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the Coronavirus ward of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospitall in Jerusalem on December 27, 2021, as Jerusalem hospital reopens COVID ward.

COVID-19 likely originated in Chinese lab leak, US Energy Dept. says - report

Claims that a lab leak in China led to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have been circulating for years, but they remain a subject of considerable dispute.

 Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 3, 2021.

Huanan Market pinned as origin point of COVID-19 pandemic - studies

Two new studies indicate that COVID-19 spilled over into people at Huanan Market from two separate zoonotic transmissions.

 Workers in protective suits take part in the disinfection of Huanan seafood market, where the novel coronavirus is believed to have first surfaced, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China March 4, 2020

Authoritarian regimes are a health threat to the world - analysis

There may be an increased risk of health emergencies that could affect the entire world when authoritarian countries are not transparent with their data

 A resident and a girl look out through gaps in the barriers at a closed residential area during lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Shanghai, China, May 17, 2022.

New MERS-related virus NeoCoV may be more lethal, transmissible - study

The World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned against making such conclusions before further study can be done.

 Coronavirus (illustrative).

COVID-19: Market in China's Wuhan likely origin of outbreak - study

The latest theory is that the world COVID-19 patient zero was a market vendor in the Chinese city of Wuhan, not an accountant, as previously speculated.

 Street view after Wuhan government announced to ban non-essential vehicles in downtown area to contain coronavirus outbreak, on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 26, 2020.

China's Wuhan to test all 12 million residents after Delta variant found

China's Wuhan city will test all of its 12 million residents for the coronavirus, after the place where the virus emerged in late 2019 confirmed its first domestic cases of the Delta variant.

WHO team member at a hospital in Wuhan

GOP probe alleges that COVID-19 came from China's Wuhan lab - report

“This was the greatest coverup of all time and has caused the deaths of more than four million people around world, and people must be held responsible.”

A building with a sign of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is pictured in Wuhan, the Chinese city hit hardest by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Hubei province, China May 15, 2020.

COVID sequences erased from int'l database shed light on initial spread

"There is no plausible scientific reason for the deletion" of the sequences from the early spread of the virus in Wuhan, according to Jesse Bloom.

A coronavirus testing facility in Wuhan, China.

China: Wuhan lab deserves Nobel Prize in medicine for COVID-19 study

Calls to investigate the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a possible source of the COVID-19 pandemic have grown louder as many experts say initial dismissal of the theory was premature.

A building with a sign of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is pictured in Wuhan, the Chinese city hit hardest by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Hubei province, China May 15, 2020.

Jon Stewart champions the Wuhan lab COVID-19 leak theory

The Jewish comedian is adamant that the coronavirus was leaked from the Wuhan lab and will not accept any other theory.

PFIZER AND MODERNA were able to develop their mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 so quickly because the scientific community has been experimenting with mRNA for so many years for other indications.