Tag: #Origin

US half-hearted virus report shows declining political significance of issue: Scholars

Left Review Online September 09, 2021

US half-hearted virus report shows declining political significance of issue: Scholars

Editor's Note: The 90-day investigation into COVID-19 origins that US President Joe Biden has ordered the US intelligence agencies to conduct has come to a farcical end. Now that the Biden administration hasn't got its desirable results from the report, what will be its next moves to make...More

More early COVID-19 cases of humans, animals need to be tested for virus origins tracing

Left Review Online September 01, 2021

More early COVID-19 cases of humans, animals need to be tested for virus origins tracing

While the World Health Organization (WHO) is planning its next phase of COVID-19 origins study, China has made it clear that the next-phase study should be carried out in multiple places worldwide, including places outside China where samples of human and animal before the Wuhan outbreak were tested...More

How mainstream US media outlets make a U-turn on virus ‘lab leak’ theory

Xu Liang August 03, 2021

How mainstream US media outlets make a U-turn on virus ‘lab leak’ theory

The tracing of COVID-19 origins is supposed to be a task for scientists. Yet Western media have never stopped hyping speculations and smears against China. Granted, some of them, including mainstream US media outlets, remained cautious with a disapproving view on the "lab leak" theory in 2020. Yet...More

Over 2 million Chinese petition WHO to probe Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins

Left Review Online July 20, 2021

Over 2 million Chinese petition WHO to probe Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins

Over 2 million Chinese netizens have signed an open letter as of Tuesday noon, demanding the World Health Organization (WHO) investigate the US' Fort Detrick lab on COVID-19 origins, and the number is still increasing rapidly. The letter was issued as the WHO on Friday proposed a second...More

Western scientists face government probe, death threats for opposing COVID-19 lab-leak theory: Source

Left Review Online July 07, 2021

Western scientists face government probe, death threats for opposing COVID-19 lab-leak theory: Source

Prominent US and Australian scientists focused on the COVID-19 origins tracing are now facing tremendous political pressure, and some have been sidelined for not yielding to politicians-driven conspiracy theory on the matter and received anonymous threatening letters with bullets, the Global Times learned from people familiar with the...More

Suspect No. 1: Why Fort Detrick lab should be investigated for global COVID-19 origins tracing

Xia Wenxin July 05, 2021

Suspect No. 1: Why Fort Detrick lab should be investigated for global COVID-19 origins tracing

The lab-leak theory, that COVID-19 was leaked from a laboratory, has once again caused a clamor since the beginning of this year, months after the argument was thrown into the trash can of conspiracy theories by an overwhelming number of scientists. Observers found that things only get more...More

China urges the US to withdraw political ‘black hands’ on scientists on COVID-19 origins

Left Review Online July 04, 2021

China urges the US to withdraw political ‘black hands’ on scientists on COVID-19 origins

Some people in the US are now extending their "black hands" to the international science community in an attempt to force scientists to bow to US hegemony, which is a violation and infringement of the scientific spirit, a destruction of global cooperation in tracing the COVID-19 origins, and...More

WHO admits Wuhan may not be virus origin, offsetting rumor

Zhao Yusha August 08, 2020

WHO admits Wuhan may not be virus origin, offsetting rumor

WHO's admission that Wuhan may not be the origin of COVID-19 may put to rest conspiracy theories that have put the central Chinese city and China in a bad light over the virus' origin, Chinese epidemiologists said. They urged for more research on transmission channels and virus host...More