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Tesla Now Has Over 35,000 Supercharger Stations Globally

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) said it added a new Supercharger station in Wuhan on Friday, a move that takes its total global count to 35,000 superchargers.

Benzinga · Jun 10, 2022

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 · Jun 10, 2022

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 · Jun 9, 2022

‘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.

Al Jazeera · Apr 30, 2022

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 · Apr 29, 2022

Shanghai Coronavirus Lockdown: What's happening and why COVID-19 cases are still surging in China, even after 'Zero COVID policy'

China is currently grappling with its worst COVID-19 outbreak since Wuhan. One of its biggest cities Shanghai, a metropolis of about 25 million people, is working towards curbing the spread of the virus and in a bid to do so, the government has confined people to their homes, imposed strict…

The Times of India · Apr 20, 2022

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 · Apr 19, 2022

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 · Apr 12, 2022

'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 · Apr 4, 2022

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 · Apr 1, 2022