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LONDON — When a World Health Organization-led team traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official said he was worried about safety standards at a laboratory close to the seafood market where the first human cases were detected, according to a documentary released Thursday by Danish television channel TV2. Support our journalism.... arrow-right The Wuhan branch of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention was handling coronavir

BEIJING( AFP)-China on Friday( Aug 13) rejected the World Health Organisation's calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported" scientific" over" political" efforts to find out how the virus started. Pressure is once more mounting on Beijing to consider a fresh probe into the origins of a pandemic which has killed more than four million people and paralysed economies worldwide since it first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.A delayed and heavily politicis

You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter.... Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. Support our journalism.... arrow-right From the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization has been accused of being too soft on China....

Since the outbreak of Covid in late 2019, the Wuhan lab has been at the heart of a raging debate about a suspected leak of pathogens from the secretive facility.... The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is yet to be conclusively determined but it most likely spread to humans from an animal source somewhere in Wuhan, China....

The news comes as leaked emails claim senior global virologists and scientists discussed the origins of the virus in a string of secret emails.... Following the leak, it became apparent the scientists protected China, and in particular the Wuhan Institute of Virology in order to prevent damage to the reputation of Chinese science.... Matt Ridley, the co-author of" Viral – The Search for the Origin of COVID-19" claims that having spoken to senior virologists, he was" duped" into believing the t

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