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People queue up in front of the vaccination centre at the Messe Berlin fairgrounds on 24 November 2021 in Berlin, amid the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. Picture: John MACDOUGALL/AFP

Wuhan

Half of Europe on track to catch Omicron, world economy at risk

By AFP

The highly transmissible Omicron strain has swept across countries, forcing governments to impose fresh measures and some rolling out vaccine booster shots.

  • Chinese Ambassador to South Africa, Chen Xiaodong. Picture: @chinainsa/Facebook

    Chen: We must rely on science & not political agendas to find COVID origins

    Chen has briefed the media on Monday, lashing out at the US calling their probes politically motivated "witch hunts" which aim to smear China's name.

    342 days ago
  • FILE: US President Joe Biden. Pictre: Mandel Ngan/AFP.

    Biden given inconclusive intelligence report on COVID origins

    The assessment, ordered by President Joe Biden 90 days ago, was unable to definitively conclude whether the virus that first emerged in central China had jumped to humans via animals or escaped a highly secure research facility in Wuhan, two US officials familiar with the matter told the Washington Post.

    348 days ago
  • FILE: Workers stand next to Wuhan residents wearing face masks waiting in a line to be tested of COVID-19 in a neighbourhood in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province on 15 May 2020. Picture: AFP

    Half of EU vaccinated as COVID returns to China's Wuhan

    China brought domestic cases down to virtually zero after the coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan in December 2019, allowing the economy to rebound and life to return largely to normal.

    369 days ago
  • FILE: Workers stand next to Wuhan residents wearing face masks waiting in a line to be tested of COVID-19 in a neighbourhood in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province on 15 May 2020. Picture: AFP

    China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' as COVID returns

    Authorities announced on Monday that seven locally transmitted infections had been found among migrant workers in the city, breaking a year-long streak without domestic cases after it squashed an initial outbreak with an unprecedented lockdown in early 2020.

    370 days ago
  • A staff member (R) wearing a face shield talks with a passenger at a long-distance bus station in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on 30 April 2020. Picture: AFP

    China threatens to ban unvaccinated adults from schools, hospitals

    At least a dozen places have stationed volunteers at government buildings, train stations and other busy public spaces to note down the names and contact information of those who are not vaccinated.

    389 days ago
  • Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus, wearing protective gear are seen during their visit to the Hubei Center for animal disease control and prevention in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province on 2 February 2021. Picture: Hector Retamal/AFP

    ANALYSIS: Why the COVID-19 lab leak theory must be formally investigated

    The lab accident theory of the origins of COVID-19 has gained traction in recent months. We need a proper investigation to find out what really happened.

    430 days ago
  • A staff member (R) wearing a face shield talks with a passenger at a long-distance bus station in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on 30 April 2020. Picture: AFP

    COVID origins mystery continues to spark speculation and tension

    With few clear answers, speculation has persisted since the beginning of the pandemic, spawning misinformation and conspiracy theories as well as sharp diplomatic tensions.

    431 days ago
  • A member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic boards a bus following their arrival at a cordoned-off section in the international arrivals area at the airport in Wuhan on 14 January 2021. Picture: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP

    COVID-19 origins search 'being poisoned by politics': WHO

    The UN health agency has been facing intensifying pressure for a new, more in-depth investigation of where COVID-19 came from, but so far there is no timeline for the next stage in the probe.

    436 days ago
  • Picture: AFP

    Facebook reverses course, won't ban lab virus theory

    The latest move by Facebook, announced late Wednesday on its website, highlights the challenge for the world's largest social network of rooting out false and potentially harmful content while remaining open for discourse.

    437 days ago
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    This is what we still don't know about the origins of COVID-19

    Graphic on key questions about the origins of the global pandemic, with a summary of findings from the WHO-China Joint Report revealed on 29 March.

    438 days ago
  • FILE: US President Joe Biden speaks during remarks on the implementation of the American Rescue Plan in the State Dining room of the White House in Washington, DC on 15 March 2021. Picture: Eric Baradat/AFP

    Biden orders intelligence report on COVID-19 origins within 90 days

    Biden's order signals an escalation in mounting controversy over how the virus first emerged - through animal contact at a market in Wuhan, China, or through release of the coronavirus from a highly secure research laboratory in the same city.

    438 days ago
  • Employees wearing security outfits carry the coffin of a person who presumably died from the new coronavirus at a cemetery in Guayaquil, Ecuador on April 1, 2020. Residents of Guayaquil, in Ecuador's southwest, express outrage over the way the government has responded to the numerous deaths related to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. Picture: AFP

    Excess deaths due to pandemic much higher than reported COVID toll: WHO

    So far, more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide have officially been attributed to COVID-19 since the disease first surfaced in China in late 2019.

    444 days ago
  • Peter Ben Embarek (3rd-R) and Marion Koopmans (2nd-R) attend a press conference to wrap up a visit by an international team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) in the city of Wuhan, in China's Hubei province on 9 February 2021. Picture: Hector Retamal/AFP

    WHO seeks next steps in COVID-19 origins probe

    After an international mission to China turned up more questions than answers about the pandemic origins, the WHO is evaluating how to move forward through a diplomatic quagmire to solve the mystery.

    473 days ago
  • FILE: A photo shows the logo of the World Health Organization (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    WHO seeks ban on sale of live wild mammals in food markets

    The World Health Organization on Tuesday called for a halt to the sale of live wild mammals in food markets to prevent the spread of disease.

    482 days ago
  • This undated handout picture courtesy of the British Health Protection Agency shows the coronavirus seen under an electron microscope. Picture: AFP.

    WHO experts say COVID probably came to humans from animals

    But the report, drafted by World Health Organization-appointed international experts and their Chinese counterparts, offers no definitive answers on how the new coronavirus jumped to humans.

    496 days ago
  • Peter Ben Embarek (3rd-R) and Marion Koopmans (2nd-R) attend a press conference to wrap up a visit by an international team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) in the city of Wuhan, in China's Hubei province on 9 February 2021. Picture: Hector Retamal/AFP

    Virus likely jumped to humans from bats via 'missing link' animal: WHO report

    Experts believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the Covid-19 disease originally came from bats.

    497 days ago
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    This is what we still don't know about the origins of COVID-19

    Graphic on key questions about the origins of the global pandemic that has killed more then 2.6 million people and devastated economies around the world.

    508 days ago
  • COVID-19: Our entrance into an age of pandemics

    After its discovery in Wuhan, China in 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is still here in 2021. In this Eyewitness News original documentary, we break down our understanding of COVID-19, how our science has dealt with it so far and recognising that this may be only the beginning.

    510 days ago
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