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Cleaning workers disinfect the Western Wall due to the COVID-19 virus in the Old City of Jerusalem, March 31, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2025, 7:57 pm
5 years later: Things we know and still don’t know about COVID-19
Half a decade after a viral outbreak in Wuhan, China, forever changed the world, a look at the global pandemic and its ongoing effects
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, laura ungar and Mike Stobbe
In this photo taken Thursday, February 23, 2017, researchers work in a lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix/AP)
February 27, 2023, 1:22 am
US agency believes COVID-19 likely escaped from Chinese lab — report
Based on unspecified new intelligence, US Energy Department now thinks lab leak theory most likely explanation for pandemic, but expresses ‘low confidence’ over finding
By AFP
This file photo taken on January 11, 2020 shows members of staff of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team leaving the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei, Province (NOEL CELIS / AFP)
July 27, 2022, 2:00 pm
2 new studies agree COVID pandemic likely originated naturally from Wuhan market
Study co-author had previously called on scientific community to be more open to idea that coronavirus may have leaked from lab, but says now convinced otherwise
By Issam Ahmed
Workers wearing protective suits walk next to Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on March 30, 2020, after travel restrictions into the city were eased following more than two months of lockdown due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. (Hector Retamal/AFP)
November 19, 2021, 6:01 pm
Study: 1st Wuhan COVID case later than believed, pointing to animal market origin
In new article, virologist Michael Worobey says his research ‘provides strong evidence of a live-animal market origin of the pandemic,’ rather than from a laboratory leak
By AFP
In this Feb. 6, 2021 photo, a worker in protective overalls carries disinfecting equipment while walking outside the Wuhan Central Hospital, where Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and was reprimanded by local police for it in the early days of Wuhan's pandemic, worked in Wuhan in central China. (AP/Ng Han Guan)
August 28, 2021, 4:38 pm
US intelligence still divided on origins of coronavirus
Investigation hindered by China’s lack of cooperation but most agencies believe virus not genetically engineered
By NOMAAN MERCHANT
In this February 11, 2021, photo, US President Joe Biden visits the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
August 25, 2021, 2:41 pm
Intel report on COVID origins requested by Biden shows inconclusive results
The assessment could not verify whether the virus came from a Wuhan lab, or jumped from animals to humans as initially suspected
By AFP
A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
July 23, 2021, 5:08 am
China slams ‘arrogant’ WHO plan to investigate labs over COVID origin
Wuhan lab denies any leaks; White House criticizes Beijing’s reaction as ‘irresponsible and frankly dangerous,’ saying this is not a time to be ‘stonewalling’
By Jing Xuan Teng
The P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on February 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
June 8, 2021, 9:45 am
US government laboratory concluded virus may have leaked from Wuhan lab – report
WSJ says secret report by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory makes strong case for further investigation into theory that COVID-19 seeped from Chinese virology center
By ToI Staff and Agencies
The Facebook app is shown on a smart phone, April 23, 2021. (AP/Wilfredo Lee)
May 27, 2021, 7:56 pm
Facebook reverses ban on posts claiming COVID-19 was lab-made
Move comes amid fresh US investigation into virus origins, including the possibility it was manufactured
By AP
With a model of the Covid-19 virus displayed, President Joe Biden listens as Dr. Barney Graham, left, speaks during a visit at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Md. Kizzmekia Corbett, an immunologist with the Vaccine Research Center at the NIH listens at right. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 27, 2021, 12:38 am
Giving credence to lab leak theory, Biden calls to investigate COVID-19 origin
US president asks intel officials to ‘redouble’ efforts to find source of virus, says world must ‘press China to participate in a full, transparent, evidence-based’ probe
By Zeke Miller and AAMER MADHANI
A member of a World Health Organization team is seen wearing protective gear during a field visit to the Hubei Animal Disease Control and Prevention Cente in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province, Feb. 2, 2021. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
May 24, 2021, 3:18 pm
Staff at Wuhan lab needed hospital care before COVID-19 spread revealed – WSJ
Report cites undisclosed US intelligence document that says 3 workers at secretive laboratory that has been tied to coronavirus pandemic sought treatment in November 2019
By ToI Staff and AFP
The Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, where the coronavirus is believed to have initially spread, seen January 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
April 19, 2021, 4:41 pm
Report: Wuhan Huanan market was identified as pandemic risk 5 years before COVID
Virologist tells The Telegraph he was given a tour by Chinese health officials in 2014 to see ‘where a disease could emerge’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Cars transporting members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team, investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus, arrive at the closed Huanan Seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province on January 31, 2021. Hector RETAMAL/AFP)
March 15, 2021, 10:26 am
US, China mount pressure ahead of WHO report on origins of COVID pandemic
Director of international health body says all hypotheses are on the table; Washington voices concerns about probe in tug-of-war with Beijing
By Robin MILLARD and Agnès PEDRERO
A journalist raises her hand to ask a question at the WHO-China Joint Study Press Conference held at the end of the World Health Organization mission in Wuhan, China, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
February 13, 2021, 11:05 pm
WHO experts want more data on possible early COVID-19 cases from China
Four-week mission to Wuhan wrapped with no conclusive findings; Chinese refuse sharing requested raw data
By Nina Larson
Peter Ben Embarek of the World Health Organization team holds up a chart showing pathways of transmission of the virus during a joint press conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Feb. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
February 9, 2021, 2:23 pm
WHO: Unlikely coronavirus leaked from China lab, most likely jumped from species
International health body announces findings by mission dogged by fears of whitewash, with US demanding ‘robust’ probe and Beijing warning against ‘politicizing’ investigation
By Agencies
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