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'Totally untrue': China dismisses report that researchers at Wuhan laboratory fell ill in late 2019
•Citing a US intelligence report, the Wall Street Journal reported three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were suffering from symptoms consistent with COVID-19 as early as November 2019
WHO inquiry on COVID-19 origins raises many questions; health body chief casts doubt on findings
•Some critics have suggested that the team seemed to take the Chinese official position at face value and did not adequately investigate lab officials’ assertions
WHO team visits Wuhan lab at the center of coronavirus conspiracies, likely to meet staff
•The visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology was one of the highlights of the WHO mission in order to gather data and search for clues as to where the COVID virus originated and how it spread
What are WHO researchers trying to learn about COVID-19 origins in Wuhan? Is the secrecy necessary?
•Possible visits after a 14-day quarantine are to the market where the first cases came up in December 2019, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
China refutes US accusation that COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan lab, says global outbreaks caused pandemic
•Beijing has been proactively questioning the widely-held view that the deadly outbreak broke out in a wet market in Wuhan where the live animals are sold
WHO advance team probing COVID-19 origin ends China visit; group of experts to visit Wuhan soon
•Epidemiological studies will begin in Wuhan to identify the potential source of early cases of COVID-19, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Coronavirus Outbreak: France says no evidence of link between COVID-19 and research lab in Wuhan
•The broad scientific consensus holds that SARS-CoV-2, the official name of the coronavirus, originated in bats.
Coronavirus Outbreak: China must pay for its cover-ups over spread of Covid-19, and its bullying
Abhijit Majumder •China owns up to 81,218 cases 3,281 deaths so far, which many nations and experts find hard to believe.