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Moment Covid 'spilled over' into humans sparking pandemic finally found in new research

Researchers have published two studies that traces the start of the coronavirus pandemic to an animal market in Wuhan, China. The Covid virus killed millions and cause mayhem

Daily Mirror

Covid-19 origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market

New research has shifted views on the source of the Covid-19 virus, including theories that it leaked from a lab

Evening Standard

New studies find more evidence of Covid’s origin from Wuhan’s ‘wet market’

‘Pandemic likely arose from at least two separate infections of humans from animals at the Huanan market,’ scientists say

The Independent UK

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New studies say Wuhan market is the only ‘plausible’ source of COVID-19 pandemic

Not long after the World Health Organization and China released a report last year dismissing the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in a lab leak, scientists from major research institutions around the world noted the paucity of the published data, and advocated for a rigorous scientific investigation into the…

Los Angeles Times

New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild

Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold

The Independent UK

Wuhan market pinpointed as pandemic's Ground Zero

The case-mapping and genetic studies offer some of the strongest evidence yet that the coronavirus jumped from an animal host to humans.

Axios

COVID originated in Wuhan market, Australian-backed study concludes

Scientists have detailed the "most compelling and most detailed" evidence showing COVID-19 originated at a fish market in Wuhan, China.

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Cholera bacteria found in Wuhan wet markets

Health officials acted swiftly to disinfect the pathogen believed to be from softshell turtles and are tracking down other batches

Wales Online

China’s economy slows sharply, fanning global recession fears

Second quarter expansion of 0.4 percent is the weakest performance since the initial coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.

Al Jazeera

In China's Wuhan, cholera-causing bacteria in turtles strikes nerve

Detection in the Chinese city of Wuhan of a bacteria that caused cholera in a student and was separately found in samples from softshell turtles at a food market has struck a sensitive nerve with ordinary Chinese people, with some relating it to COVID-19.

Reuters

Court Rejects Lawsuit Against China over the COVID Pandemic

From Missouri ex rel. Schmitt v. People's Republic of China, decided Friday by Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. (E.D. Mo.) (fun fact: he's the late Rush Limbaugh's cousin): Amidst the wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic, plaintiffs across the United States have filed civil suits seeking damages against the People's Republic…

Reason

Ode to the Spring review – manipulative Chinese Covid-onset drama

These sentimental, pandemic-based stories, all set in Wuhan, might struggle to find an audience

The Guardian - UK

New Covid subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 are the most contagious yet – and driving Australia’s third Omicron wave

The latest variants are masters at evading immunity – meaning previous infection and vaccines are unlikely to provide much protection against catching it

The Guardian - AU

Ode to the Spring review – Chinese exploration of pandemic ground zero in Wuhan

Telling five Covid-related stories, this platitudinous urban-interconnection drama offers lectures on virtue and self-sacrifice and feels like state propaganda

The Guardian - UK

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Daily Mirror

New Moderna 'super-booster' jab to target Wuhan and Omicron strains 'coming in Autumn'

The jab, known as “214”, is bivalent, which means it helps build immunity to both the original Wuhan strain and the Omicron variants

Benzinga

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.

The Hindu

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

Reuters

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.

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Wales Online

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

The Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

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,…

Al Jazeera

‘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.

ABC News

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.

Benzinga

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…

The Conversation

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…

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