China's failure to provide access to global health experts made the Covid-19 pandemic worse than it had to be, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Sunday, and it was important to "get to the bottom" of the origin of the novel coronavirus.

Top US diplomat Blinken criticises China, says 'need to get to the bottom' of Covid-19 origin

A team commissioned by the World Health Organization to investigate the source of the coronavirus in Wuhan in January concluded that it was "extremely unlikely" that the pathogen originated in a top-security lab in the ground-zero Chinese city.

The Wuhan lab at the heart of the ‘extremely unlikely’ leak theory

The World Health Organization (WHO) team is planning to scrap its interim report on its investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan amid mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington over the probe, a report said.

WHO to scrap interim report on COVID-19 origin gathered in Wuhan: Report

According to reports, coronavirus investigators have discovered that signs of coronavirus outbreak were much wider in Wuhan in December 2019 than previously thought.

Coronavirus outbreak much wider in Wuhan in December, 2019: Report

A member of the special WHO mission to China said on Wednesday that US intelligence on the origin of the coronavirus was not reliable. His comments came after Washington cast doubts on the transparency of the probe.

'Don't rely too much' on COVID intel from US, says WHO team member

The World Health Organization said on Monday that team visiting China to explore the origins of the coronavirus is having productive talks with its Chinese counterparts.

WHO team says it is having 'productive talks' in China about COVID's origins

China’s silence in the earliest days of the coronavirus crisis had made it worse for the whole world. And still, China is making it harder for the world to solve the mystery around the origins of the Wuhan virus.

WHO recordings show China delayed releasing coronavirus information

Thousands of New Year revellers packed into the centre of Wuhan, the Chinese city where Covid-19 was first detected, cheering and releasing balloons to welcome in 2021.

Wuhan one year on: Crowds throng to celebrate New Year

Nightclubs in COVID-19's original epicentre Wuhan have reopened as partying remains a distant dream for rest of the world. Nightlife in Wuhan is back in full swing almost seven months after the city lifted its stringent lockdown and the city’s young partygoers are embracing the catharsis.

Nightclubs reopen in COVID-19's original epicentre Wuhan

In one Beijing artist’s recent depiction of the world in 2098, China is a high-tech superpower and the United States is humbled. Americans have embraced communism and Manhattan, draped with the hammer-and-sickle flags of the “People’s Union of America,” has become a quaint tourist precinct.

China’s combative nationalists see a world turning their way

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 69.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.58 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Worldwide coronavirus cases surpass 69.6 million-mark

China's Sinovac Biotech has secured $515 million in funding from a local firm to double the production capacity of its coronavirus vaccine, the companies said on Monday, as it expects efficacy data of its experimental shot this month.

China's Sinovac secures $515 million to boost covid vaccine production 

Chinese state media have cited the presence of the novel coronavirus on imported frozen food packaging, as well as scientific papers, claiming that the coronavirus was circulating in Europe earlier than previously believed, as evidence that China may not have been its origin.

With frozen food clampdown, China questions theory of coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan

A Chinese ex-lawyer and a citizen journalist, Zhang Zhan, is being subjected to a possible jail time for nearly five years for reporting on the coronavirus pandemic, that allegedly started in a Wuhan lab.

Chinese citizen journalist who uncovered COVID-19 truth faces possibility of jail time: Reports

China has imposed fresh travel bans on non-Chinese arrivals from Britain and Belgium, as it guards against a resurgence of the coronavirus by refusing entry to people from two of Europe's worst-hit nations.

Beijing bars arrivals from UK, Belgium due to second COVID-19 waves

Kashgar, a remote city in China’s in the north-western region of Xinjiang detected more than 100 asymptomatic Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the regional health authority said.

New coronavirus outbreak detected in China's Kashgar city

It has been nearly ten months since the pandemic took over the world. The novel coronavirus, numerous reports claim, was originated in China's Wuhan, and some even claim that the virus is Wuhan lab-made.

EXCLUSIVE| We have no doubt COVID-19 originated in China: Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu

So far, the global scientific community has been unable to identify a natural origin of, or a logical evolutionary pathway for, the COVID-19 virus. In contrast, the entire history of coronavirus research is punctuated by the ubiquitous use of genetic engineering to produce new viral combinations, which makes a laboratory origin a far more likely scenario.

Don’t tell me the COVID-19 virus could not have been manufactured by China

There may be some culpability involved, but the huge resistance being mounted by the international scientific elite, the media and vested financial interests against conducting an objective analysis of the origin of the COVID-19 virus is primarily about money.

Are the global scientific elite trying to bury the truth about the origin of Covid-19?

In an exclusive conversation with WION, Dr Li-Meng Yan, who recently broke the internet by claiming that COVID-19 was manufactured in a lab, said that on the course of her research, she was told not to talk about her discoveries.

WION exclusive | Chinese virologist who claimed COVID-19 is lab-made suggests Wuhan doctors were forced into silence

Back in February, when few Americans were aware of a distant and oddly named phenomenon called coronavirus, two Chinese filmmakers strapped on hazmat suits and embedded themselves in Wuhan's overrun hospitals.

Wuhan film '76 Days' captures horror and humanity at coronavirus ground zero 5

China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic's origin story as it aims to seize the narrative at a time of growing global distrust of Beijing.

China tries to flip the pandemic script, starring a 'reborn' Wuhan

A woman is suing the government in Wuhan for the death of her father and for not divulging enough information about the coronavirus pandemic when it hit the city.

A woman from Wuhan is suing China for her father's death due to COVID-19

The ‘wet markets’ on the mainland have been slammed internationally as the coronavirus roils the world, with the disease having seemingly emerged from stalls selling live game in Wuhan late last year.

Wuhan food markets are selling wild animals, again

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