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The spy agency's assessment was based on an unspecified intelligence operation code-named "Saaremaa" as well as on publicly-available data.

US Government might have paid double in 'high risk' virus research support to Wuhan

Diane Cutler, former federal investigator for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, revealed evidence that leads to the 'possible theft' of tens of millions of Government money, according to the report.

‘Tragic battle’: On the front lines of China’s COVID crisis

China’s hospitals were already overcrowded, underfunded and inadequately staffed in the best of times. But now with COVID-19 spreading freely for the first time in China, the medical system is being pushed to its limits.

Chinese scientists invent laser so powerful it can write words in mid-air

The Wuhan-based team demonstrated the laser by writing Chinese characters in the air, which can be viewed and even touched.

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

The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 remains a mystery and a major source of tension between China and the United States.

WHO panel on origins of new pathogens includes Wuhan probe members

The statement named the 26 proposed members ahead of a two-week period of public consultation, including Marion Koopmans, Thea Fischer and Hung Nguyen who took part in the joint investigation with China this year.

Delayed report on Wuhan wet market reveals crucial details on COVID-19 origin

The report that was eventually published in June in the journal Scientific Reports, stated that minks, civets, raccoon dogs, and other mammals known to harbour coronaviruses were being sold for years in Wuhan, including in the Huanan wet market – which is linked to several of the earliest known COVID-19 cases.

COVID-19: WHO Chief Ghebreyesus says it was 'premature' to rule out Wuhan lab leak

Tedros told reporters that the U.N. health agency based in Geneva is 'asking actually China to be transparent, open and cooperate, especially on the information, raw data that we asked for at the early days of the pandemic.'

There was nothing strange, but probe is needed: Foreign scientist at Wuhan lab speaks out

Danielle Anderson, the only foreign scientist to have undertaken research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s BSL-4 lab, told Bloomberg that she is convinced that the novel coronavirus was not made intentionally to infect people and deliberately released.

Did coronavirus originate in a Wuhan lab? Clamour grows for China to offer answers

Over the past few weeks, statements from the White House and the G7 have spurred renewed interest on how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may have developed. Here's a breakdown of the various theories, including the one that it leaked from a Wuhan lab.

Masks off, mortarboards on: Wuhan sheds COVID for mass graduation

COVID-19 first emerged in late 2019 in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province, sending the city of 11 million into one of the world's strictest lockdowns.

COVID-19 | Chinese scientist at centre of virus controversy denies lab leak theory

Dr Shi Zhengli has denied her institution in Wuhan was to blame for the health disaster.

Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before COVID-19 outbreak disclosed: Report

The newspaper said the report - which provides fresh details on the number of researchers affected, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits - may add weight to calls for a broader probe of whether the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from the laboratory.

Chinese military and health officials discussed weaponising coronavirus in 2015, claims 'leaked' document

The document shows the Chinese officials describing SARS coronaviruses as heralding a "new era of genetic weapons” that can be “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus", the Australian media reported.

The Wuhan lab at the heart of the 'extremely unlikely' leak theory

The institute houses a lab with a biosafety rating of "P4" -- the highest possible -- which is determined by the level of danger and resulting security measures posed by the pathogens studied there. P4-level pathogens include those which cause diseases such as Ebola.

WHO scraps plan for interim report on Wuhan virus mission: Report

The WHO team returned recently from its visit there saying it had no clear finding on the genesis of the virus, amid tensions between the US and China on what caused the once-in-a century global health crisis.

COVID-19 Origin | The next Wuhan could be anywhere in the world

Back-tracing all the data from the earliest COVID-19 infections to trace the origins of the infection is important. More than scoring political brownie points and pointing fingers, science demands this be done

WHO mission says lab leak virus theory 'extremely unlikely

The laboratory incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus into the human population," said Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the WHO mission.

WHO-led COVID-19 probe team visits sites in Wuhan

A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived on February 2 at an animal health facility in China's central city of Wuhan in the search for clues about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The independent team has already visited key hospitals, the regional disease control centre, and the city's Huanan seafood market, where the first cluster of infections was believed to have originated late in 2019.

COVID-19: WHO experts visit Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan

The visit which took place amid tight security assumed significance as the market was widely presumed to be the source of the virus though Chinese official media in recent months questioned the premise.

A year after Wuhan lockdown, China sees small rise in COVID-19 cases

The National Health Commission said 107 new COVID-19 cases had been identified in the mainland on Saturday, up from 103 cases the day before.

Wuhan researchers fell sick before outbreak, China systematically prevented COVID-19 probe: US state department

The state department says it has a “reason to believe” that several researchers at the Wuhan virology Institute became sick in autumn 2019–before the first identified case of the outbreak–and the symptoms were consistent with COVID-19.

Wuhan a year later | Life gradually returning to normal at China's COVID-19 epicentre

Face masks aside, people are going about their daily life pretty much as normal in the Chinese city that was first hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a remarkable turnaround for the 11 million residents of Wuhan, a city devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. The commercial hub on the mighty Yangtze River spent 76 days in lockdown last year, from January to April.

Two members of WHO delegation to Wuhan held back over health screening

The team of 15 had all tested negative for the disease prior to leaving their home countries, and underwent further testing while in transit in Singapore.

She chronicled China’s crisis, now she is accused of spreading lies

Zhang Zhan was among of a wave of journalists, professionals and amateurs who flocked to Wuhan after the lockdown was imposed in late January.