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As per WHO, the field visits included the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Huanan market, Wuhan CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) laboratory. According to WHO, the team was “limited by visits…
Genome sequence data and lab origin While many scientists had dismissed the lab-origin theory, in mid-February 2020, a group of 27 prominent scientists from outside China went a step ahead and “strongly…
Knowing the natural reservoirs and intermediate hosts and the events that permitted the virus to jump across the species barrier is important to prevent future outbreaks. Soon after the virus…
The capricious decision to withdraw from WHO will have dire consequences for global public health. The departure of the U.S. will be a significant blow to the WHO in terms…
Contrary to what was earlier reported, China confirmed to the WHO of the cluster of cases of ‘viral pneumonia of unknown cause’ on January 3 only after the global body…
After blaming coronavirus as democrats’ new hoax, and calling the microbe as “China virus”, WHO has now become Mr. Trump’s latest scapegoat for all the failures of his administration in…
On April 2, novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) cases crossed one million and deaths passed 50,000. Besides missing out people with mild symptoms and underreporting, the actual number of infected people will…
In an unprecedented measure, India on March 25 began a country-wide shutdown for 21 days to cut the transmission chain of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Can mitigation measures without tracking…
