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HTMLOn 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) was informed of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was subsequently identified from patient samples.This page contains information for professionals and the public on the epidemiology, virology and clinical features of COVID-19, the infection caused by SARS-CoV-2.There may be further information specific to each country in the UK, as this guidance was written by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) primarily for an English health professional audience.

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FBI director says Wuhan lab leak likely caused Covid pandemic

FBI Director Christopher Wray has said the agency has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Did COVID-19 come from a Chinese lab? Why a new U.S. report is renewing questions

A new intelligence report from the U.S. Department of Energy that reportedly concludes it’s possible the COVID-19 pandemic originated from an accidental laboratory leak in China is renewing questions over where the virus came from.

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China's Wuhan seafood market likely epicentre of Covid-19 outbreak: Study

Covid-19 cases detected before December 20 in 2019 were from the western side of the Wuhan market where mammal species were also sold. Meanwhile, another study that also backs the claim on China's Wuhan market to be the epicentre of Covid-19 disease, used genetic information to track the timing of the coronavirus outbreak.

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New studies say COVID-19 virus originated in Wuhan market in China

coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold — further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.The research, published online Tuesday by the journal Science, shows that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was likely the early epicenter of the scourge that has now killed nearly 6.4 million people around the world. Scientists conclude that the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, likely spilled from animals into people two separate times.

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China closes city of 17 million people; faces biggest crisis since Wuhan Covid outbreak

COVID-19 cases, as the government scrambled to contain the worst outbreak of virus cases in the last two years.

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China’s latest Covid-19 outbreak its most widespread since Wuhan

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Wuhan Lab Workers Were Likely Unaware of Covid-19 Virus Before Pandemic, U.S. Spy Agencies Say

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Chinese citizen journalist who documented Covid-19 in Wuhan resurfaces after 600 days

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New Delta variant COVID-19 cases in Wuhan prompt widespread testing

Wuhan, China was undergoing testing for its 12 million residents for COVID-19 on Wednesday after the city confirmed its first domestic case of the highly-transmissible Delta variant.

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China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' as Covid-19 returns

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Covid-19 flares again in Wuhan as Delta variant challenges China’s defences

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60% of Americans believe Covid-19 was created in Wuhan lab and then leaked: Poll

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Only foreign scientist working in Wuhan Lab, just before covid outbreak in China, speaks out

Covid-19 emerged in central China. Yet, the Australian virologist still wonders what she missed.

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Wuhan lab's classified information hampering search for COVID-19 origins: Report

COVID-19, a review of Wuhan Institute of Virology's public records and internal guidelines have revealed the existence of unspecified classified projects and discussion of the lab's responsibilities under China's state secrets law, which hamper the search for the origins of the virus.

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UK, US scientists call for fuller probe into COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory

LONDON : A group of leading UK and US scientists, including Indian-origin Cambridge University immunology and infectious disease expert Ravindra Gupta, on Friday called for more investigation to determine the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the theory of an accidental release from a lab in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.In a letter published in the journal ‘Science’, the experts from world leading universities such as Harvard, Stanford and MIT said knowing how COVID-19 emerged is critical for informing global strategies to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks.They caution that hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers must be taken seriously until there is sufficient data.“Theories of accidental release from a

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Hinshaw, Shandro to provide provincial COVID-19 update Tuesday afternoon

COVID-19 in the province and “the ongoing work to protect public health.”The chief medical officer of health and minister will be making their comments at 4 p.m. and you can watch them in this story.

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WHO team finds possible signs of wider COVID outbreak in Wuhan on Dec 20: Report

Washington: Investigators from the World Health Organisation (WHO) looking into the origins of coronavirus in China have discovered that signs of the outbreak were much wider in Wuhan in December 2018 than previously thought, CNN reported.The investigators are urgently seeking access to hundreds and thousands of blood samples from the city that China has not so far let them examine.The lead investigator for the WHO mission, Peter Ben Embarek, told CNN in a wide-ranging interview that the mission had found several signs of the more wide-ranging 2019 spread, including establishing for the first time there were over a dozen strains of the virus in Wuhan already in December.The team, which arrived in China in January and spent four weeks

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Explainer: WHO's theories about the origins of Covid-19 after Wuhan probe

World Health Organization (WHO) completed its 28-day mission to the Chinese city of Wuhan this week seeking clues about the origins of COVID-19.The following looks at their findings.What are the main scenarios?Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO's leading animal disease expert, said the team conducted scientific investigations into four main scenarios about how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread into humans.In the first, a single person was exposed to SARS-CoV-2 through direct contact with the host species, the horseshoe bat.

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WHO says Covid may not have started at Wuhan wet market as it reveals probe findings

Covid-19 may not have originated in a wet market in Wuhan - but was not the result of a 'lab leak', experts have said.

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No indication of Covid-19 in Wuhan before December 2019, says WHO

The Chinese Health Commission expert has said that the virus that causes Covid-19 could have been circulating in other regions before it was identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.Click here to read the Mint ePaperMint is now on Telegram.

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WHO to reveal what they've found today after searching for Covid origin clues in Wuhan

Covid-19, will reveal what they've found today.The team, who have spent nearly a month in Wuhan, China, are expected to brief media on their findings at around 7.30am today, (Tuesday, February 9).WHO experts are expected to be joined with scientists from the Chinese side who have been involved in the investigation.The team touched down in the city on January 14, and following two weeks of quarantine, visited key sites known to be connected to coronavirus.They visited the Huanan seafood market, the location of the first known cluster of infections as well as the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been involved in research related to Covid.The team have clarified expectations from their mission, with zoologist Peter Daszak telling Reuters

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As the world fights the second COVID-19 wave, life in Wuhan returns to normal

In early 2020, the city of Wuhan, China was under an unprecedented lockdown because of the coronavirus outbreak, prompting Canada to send its first plane to bring Canadians home to safety.

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Did the Covid-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?

We are all but certain it came from China. Yet surprisingly, even now, nobody knows how the pandemic began.We were told early on that it started in a Wuhan wet market, possibly via smuggled pangolins, which infected people.

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1 year later: Wuhan declares victory over COVID-19

Just one year ago, Wuhan, China became the world’s first city where the novel coronavirus was first identified. Officials scrambled to contain this insidious enemy.

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Calgary man who spent month in Wuhan lockdown warns it’s too soon to ease Alberta COVID-19 restrictions

‘I definitely fear for their health’: Young Calgary family trapped in Wuhan faces being separated Zhang, his wife and their children were stuck indoors in Wuhan for 27 days before getting on a flight organized by the Canadian government.“We certainly take it more seriously, even living in Calgary where the restrictions are not as severe as back in January in Wuhan. Just because of what we went through, we certainly respect it more, and we treat it more cautiously,” Zhang said.His parents were cooped up for nearly 100 days, despite the official lockdown in the city of 11 million people lasting 76 days.

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WHO-led team probing Covid-19 origins visit Wuhan hospital that had early virus patients

World Health Organization-led team of experts visited a hospital on Friday where China says the first Covid-19 patients were treated over a year ago as part of the experts' long-awaited fact-finding mission on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.Members of the team left the hotel by car, and a short time later entered the gates of the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine.

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A year after Wuhan coronavirus lockdown, trauma and anger toward China remain

Wuhan today, it might be hard to believe it was once ground zero for the novel coronavirus pandemic.One year after the Chinese city of 11 million was locked down to prevent the spread of COVID-19, businesses and schools are open and the streets are bustling with people — nearly all of whom wear masks. Some practice tai chi in parks, while others jog along the Yangtze River that flows through the urban centre.

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Wuhan, China returns to normal as world continues to battle coronavirus pandemic

Wuhan at 2 a.m. announced the world’s first coronavirus lockdown, bringing the bustling central Chinese industrial and transport centre to a virtual standstill almost overnight.

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Wuhan locals pack streets for New Year as swathes of world suffer Covid-19 lockdowns

nightclubs earlier in December. The city went into an incredibly strict lockdown in January and has not reported a locally-transmitted case of the virus since May 10.

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Wuhan’s Covid-19 cases may have been 10 times higher, study shows

Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan early this year may have been nearly 10 times the recorded tally, a study conducted by China’s public health authorities indicates, leaving the city where the coronavirus first took hold still well short of the immunity required to protect against a potential resurgence.About 4.4% of those tested were found to have specific antibodies that can fight off the pathogen that causes Covid-19, indicating they were infected some time in the past, according to a serological survey of more than 34,000 people conducted in April by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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China starts emergency COVID-19 vaccination in Wuhan

Wuhan, where the novel coronavirus emerged a year ago before it became a pandemic and upended life across the globe, has started the emergency COVID-19 vaccination on some key groups, a senior health official said on Tuesday, even as China is yet to officially certify its multiple vaccines.The vaccination, available at 48 designated clinics in 15 districts, began on December 24, targeting certain groups of people aged between 18 and 59 years, He Zhenyu, deputy director of the centre for disease control and prevention in Wuhan, told the media in Wuhan.Also read How Indians lived online during 2020Those receiving the vaccine need to take two shots with an interval of four weeks, the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted He as saying.As per the

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Covid epicentre Wuhan reopens nightclubs – and there's not a mask in sight

coronavirus pandemic is back to normal life, with nightclubs reopening and the city centre thronged with cooped-up young partiers.Wuhan, in China's Hubei province, hasn't reported a new locally transmitted case of Covid-19 since May 10.The city went into an incredibly strict lockdown in January after the novel coronavirus outbreak was linked to one of its wet markets, although it had killed just 17 people at that point.For 11 weeks residents were confined to their homes or apartment complexes and were forbidden from travelling outside of Wuhan, with military roadblocks preventing any entry or exit.

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New research suggests Alberta COVID-19 R value currently too high to lift restrictions

new measures announced on Nov. 24.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Kenney said the province’s R value must be below one by Dec.

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COVID-what? Water park in Wuhan, China packs in thousands of music fans

Wuhan over the weekend for a socially snug concert, less than a year after the novel coronavirus broke out in the Chinese city.Photos from the Playa Maya Water Park show Chinese tourists swimming and floating on dinghies in close quarters, without the usual masks and social-distancing measures that have become commonplace in other countries hit by the virus. ‘I’m not nude!’ — Acrobat handcuffed after wearing thong to Myrtle Beach More people were wearing goggles and life-jackets than face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the photos show.Critics have often described such partygoers as “Covidiots” in other parts of the world, including the U.S.

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Coronavirus: 6 months after COVID-19 outbreak, Wuhan hopes worst is over

Life is returning back to normal in Wuhan, which is the city where COVID-19 originated, six months after China first reported cases of “viral pneumonia” to the World Health Organization.

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Donnie Yen, Donna Gigliotti to Produce COVID-19 Documentary 'Wuhan! Wuhan!'

The early moments of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China are set to get the big-screen treatment in Wuhan!, Wuhan!, a feature documentary that has been set up as a U.S.-China co-production, with Hong Kong martial arts star Donnie Yen (Ip Man, Rogue One, Mulan) and Oscar winner Donna Gigliotti (Shakespeare in Love, Silver Linings Playbook) signed on as producers. Co-directed by Chinese documentary filmmaker Gong Cheng (A Bite of China, Voice of the Earth) and award-winning documentarian Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China Heavyweight), the film follows 36 hours in the life of disparate characters interwoven through the virus-blighted city of Wuhan.

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Wuhan bans eating wild animals in wake of coronavirus pandemic

Wuhan, the city in China where the first cases of the novel coronavirus were reported late last year, has banned the eating of wild animals and is paying farmers to stop breeding exotic animals.

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Officials in Wuhan to test all residents for COVID-19 after new infections found

Authorities in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic began were moving forward Wednesday with efforts to test all 11 million residents for the virus within 10 days after a handful of fresh infections were found there.

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Wuhan to use massive testing against COVID-19 resurgence; Russia cases soar

Two countries—China and Singapore—are taking massive testing steps to tamp down COVID-19 resurgences, as cases continued to soar in Russia, now the country with the third-highest number of cases.

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Corona: China says Pompeo has no evidence Covid-19 virus escaped from Wuhan lab

China fired back at US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, saying he has no evidence to back up claims that the virus that causes Covid-19 escaped from a lab in the central city of Wuhan.

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Study finds COVID-19 'virus-laden aerosol' in air inside Wuhan hospitals that treated patients

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. (Photo by: IMAGE POINT FR - LPN/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Get

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Coronavirus outbreak: Trump suspects COVID-19 came from Wuhan lab

On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said that he has seen something which has given him confidence that the novel coronavirus originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but did not specify any evidence.

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Wet markets in China's Wuhan struggle to survive as Covid-19 stigma persists

The virus, which has infected 1.6 million people and killed 106,000 in 214 countries, is believed to have originated late last year among wild animals on sale in a seafood market in Wuhan

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Wuhan, China’s coronavirus epicentre, ends 76-day lockdown

After 11 weeks of lockdown, the first train departed Wednesday morning from a re-opened Wuhan, the origin point for the coronavirus pandemic, as residents once again were allowed to travel in and out of the sprawling central Chinese city.

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Wuhan study: Between 3 and 10% of recovered COVID-19 patients tested positive again

WUHAN, China - Doctors in Wuhan have noticed a trend among a group of recovered COVID-19 patients: Between 3 and 10% of them test positive a second time, according to the South China Morning Post.

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Coronavirus: Wuhan woman donates medical supplies to Calgarians who helped her city

A generous effort to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic is coming full circle in Calgary.

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