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'Not afraid of the virus anymore': Wuhan residents hopeful three years after Covid pandemic

Since Beijing ordered Wuhan sealed off in a bid to suffocate the outbreak in January 2020, Covid has devastated the planet, killing millions and plunging the global economy into turmoil

China: Amidst COVID wave, thousands gather in Wuhan to celebrate New Year

In the new year celebration, people released balloons when the clock struck midnight, as per tradition in Wuhan

US to blame for outbreak of made-in-Wuhan COVID-19 virus, says American scientist

The whistleblower, Dr Andrew Huff, the former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance claimed that COVID is a human manufacture. According to him, the virus was genetically engineered and leaked from the Chinese facility

Explained: The challenge before China’s Xi Jinping as rare lockdown protests spread

It’s rare to see a protest in China. As demonstrations against the draconian zero-COVID policy intensify, people call for the resignation of Xi Jinping. Will detentions and crackdowns against protesters make matters worse?

Is China secretly developing a virus ‘deadlier’ than COVID-19 in a Pakistan laboratory?

There could be a virus more fatal that COVID-19. China’s infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology is reportedly developing pathogens which can cause more contamination than coronavirus in a lab run by the Pakistan army in Rawalpindi

COVID-19 origin theories: Was there a lab leak in Wuhan or the US?

While the Wuhan lab leak theory is in vogue in some quarters, others are pointing the finger at the US. Meanwhile, the zoonotic hypothesis – that COVID-19 spilled over from an animal to humans – remains overwhelmingly popular among scientists

The truth behind Boston University’s new COVID strain with 80% kill rate

A team of scientists from Florida and Boston at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories combined the Omicron strain’s spike protein – the unique structure that binds to and invades human cells – with that of the original virus that emerged from China’s Wuhan

China: Animal market in Wuhan was epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic, says new study

The investigation required neighborhood-level study within Wuhan to be more certain the virus was 'zoonotic' -- that it jumped from animals to people

COVID-19 origin | WHO says it’s unclear but lab leak theory needs study

That stance marks a sharp reversal of the UN health agency's initial assessment of the pandemic's origins, and comes after many critics accused WHO of being too quick to dismiss or underplay a lab-leak theory that put Chinese officials on the defensive.

Shanghai reports 7 more COVID-19 deaths, infection rate peaks amid lockdown in Chinese city

The Shanghai Municipal Health Commission on Tuesday said the seven victims were aged between 60 and 101, and all suffered from underlying conditions such as heart disease and diabetes