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In China's Wuhan, a shadow of reserve and resentment even as COVID lockdowns ease

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak nearly three years ago and where thousands died, residents cautiously greeted a relaxation of lockdown measures by authorities this week.

Reuters

China scrambles to recalibrate 'zero-COVID' policy

WUHAN, China/BEIJING -- The administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping has rolled back some elements of its "zero-COVID" policy, as the slowing economy and public frustration with strict infection prevention measures stoke concerns within the government.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Was coronavirus a lab leak? A startling revelation about origin of Covid-19

NEW DELHI: A US-based scientist, Andrew Huff, who worked at a controversial research lab in China's Wuhan, has claimed that Covid-19 was a "man-made virus" that leaked from the facility.

The Times of India

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Scientist who worked for US-funded Wuhan lab makes terrifying claims about Covid's origin

"China knew from day one that this was a genetically engineered agent"

Irish Mirror

China Reports 2 New COVID Deaths as Some Restrictions Eased

China on Sunday reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions amid increasingly vocal public frustration over the measures. The National Health Commission said one death was reported each in the provinces of Shandong and Sichuan. No information was given about the ages…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lawsuit blames Fauci and federal agencies for Kansas City musician’s COVID-19 death

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The widow of a popular Kansas City-area musician has filed a lawsuit accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health of indirectly causing her husband’s death from COVID-19 by funding coronavirus experimentation at a lab in China.

Tribune News Service

First Thing: Shanghai protests over zero-Covid policy spark clashes

Beijing, Chengdu and Wuhan are also rocked by demonstrations as anger over restrictions builds. Plus: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow Arctic thawing?

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Clashes in Shanghai as protests over zero-Covid policy grip China

Beijing, Chengdu and Wuhan see demonstrations as anger over Xi Jinping’s strict Covid policies builds, in a test for the Communist party

The Guardian - AU

This nation was ready for COVID. Now it’s eyeing the next threat

Two weeks before China disclosed it was investigating a cluster of mysterious pneumonia cases in Wuhan in late 2019 — what the world now knows as COVID-19 — South Korea’s top health officials gathered for a quarterly table-top exercise to plan their response to a theoretical health threat.

Tribune News Service

Xi’s iron grip on his country is stopping the Covid U-turn it so desperately needs

As the rest of the world breaks free of the virus, China has doubled down on draconian measures

The Guardian - UK

Wuhan subway passenger covers body in huge plastic bag to eat banana amid Covid wave

The woman was seen sat between other passengers as she covered her entire upper body in the bag and proceeded to enjoy her snack in a clever way to avoid breaching Covid rules.

Daily Mirror

The Lab Leak Deception

Public officials concealed their conflicts of interest and role in funding research that may have caused the pandemic, says health reporter Emily Kopp.

Reason

Michael Hiltzik: ProPublica and Vanity Fair are pushing the COVID lab-leak theory, but their exposé is a train wreck

Since its founding in 2007, the independently funded investigative organization ProPublica has exposed wrongdoing at all levels of government and shined a light on corporate misbehavior, collecting six Pulitzer Prizes in the process and securing a reputation for painstaking, accurate journalism.

Los Angeles Times

China rolls out first inhalable Covid vaccine days after Wuhan goes into third lockdown

The first people are starting to receive the Covid vaccine, which is inhaled via the mouth from a vessel that looks like a takeaway coffee cup with a short mouthpiece, in China

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Daily Mirror

Site of Covid outbreak Wuhan plunged into lockdown three years after first case

Wuhan in China - which was the site of the world's first Covid-19 outbreak in late 2019 - has reported around 20 to 25 new infections a day this week

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Climate crisis funds ‘not delivered’ to countries in grave need

With famine in Somalia almost inevitable, $100bn a year pledge criticised. Plus, China is locking down parts of Wuhan again

Reuters

Chinese cities double down on zero-COVID as outbreaks widen

Chinese cities from Wuhan in central China to Xining in the northwest are doubling down on COVID-19 curbs, sealing up buildings, locking down districts and throwing millions into distress in a scramble to halt widening outbreaks.

The Times of India

China locks down parts of Wuhan as Covid cases emerge

BEIJING: Wuhan locked down one of its central districts after Covid cases were found, as China persists with a zero-tolerance approach to the virus almost three years since the pathogen first emerged in the city.

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Lab 'playing with fire' after creating new hybrid Covid strain 'with 80% kill rate'

Boston University scientists combined Omicron with the original Wuhan Covid strain to make a hybrid which killed 80% of the mice it was tested on, as experts warn such research needs better accountability

The Guardian - UK

Breathless by David Quammen review – an expert eye on Covid’s past and future

The veteran science writer brings a naturalist’s eye to the complexities of viruses and the tangle of conspiracy theories in his thoroughly readable guide

The Times of India

WHO says end of COVID pandemic is in sight!

"We are not there yet. But the end is in sight," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a virtual press conference on Wednesday. This is the most positive affirmation from the head of the global health agency which had declared the coronavirus led COVID as a global pandemic…

ABC News

First multi-strain COVID-19 vaccine approved for use in Australia after government backs Moderna shot

Unlike other approved vaccines, which only target the original Wuhan strain, this one also targets the original Omicron BA.1 strain.

Evening Standard

Fears over mystery pneumonia after death of three people in Argentina

There are concerns the mystery virus mirrors the early stages of Covid-19 which emerged from Wuhan in China

The Conversation

The COVID lab leak theory is dead. Here's how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market

My colleagues and I published the most detailed studies of the earliest events in the COVID-19 pandemic last month in the journal Science.

ABC News

COVID-19 lab-leak theory challenged by Australian professor who has been dubbed 'the virus hunter'

Professor Eddie Holmes can still remember the exact moment he first learned about COVID-19. The story jumped out because he had visited that very market in 2014 and thought, "that's not right".

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