China hits back at FBI lab leak theory

 

A new row has broken out between the US and China over the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes after the FBI director, Christopher Wray, confirmed on Tuesday that the agency had decided that the origin of the pandemic was "most likely a potential lab incident" in Wuhan.  The coronavirus was first identified in the Chinese city in 2019 - and it is home to a virology lab that conducted research into coronaviruses. Beijing has rejected the claims, accusing Washington of hurting its own credibility.   

Inside the Final Days of the Doctor China Tried to Silence | Visual Investigations

 

A New York Times video investigation reveals new details about Dr. Li Wenliang’s illness and death from Covid-19 based on medical records and an exclusive interview with a key witness.

Wuhan’s Hidden Trauma: After the COVID lockdown

A Chinese filmmaker ventures into Wuhan and discovers unseen psychological trauma in the aftermath of the city’s lockdown.

Wuhan was the first city in the world to emerge from a total COVID lockdown.

Chinese filmmaker Vincent Du drives into Wuhan one day after restrictions are lifted and befriends a journalist who is trying to get back to Beijing.

But Vincent turns the camera on himself as he discovers the city’s residents battling with collective signs of severe depression and trauma in the immediate aftermath. 

China's spiraling delta variant outbreak hits Wuhan

 China's spiraling Delta variant outbreak has reached Wuhan, the original epicenter of the pandemic, prompting citywide coronavirus testing as authorities scramble to contain the city's first reported local infections in more than a year.

Why the China Covid lab-leak theory is being taken seriously

Nearly a year and a half since Covid-19 was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of how the virus first emerged remains a mystery.

 

Was COVID-19 made inside a Chinese lab? | Under Investigation (Yet Another Way To Create A Conspiracy Theory)

 

There is absolutely  no proof that the coronavirus was created in a lab in Wuhan China and then escaped. This is how conspiracy theories are born and propagated.   Which then leads to racist attacks on those from East Asia which I'm sure 60 Minutes Australia has little problem with.    

 

One year since the end of lockdown in Wuhan, China - BBC News

 It's been one year since the end of lockdown in Wuhan, the world's first epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.

Has the coronavirus jumped to humans through trade in exotic animals in China? | COVID-19 Special

 

It took a year for China to allow an international investigation into the origin of the coronavirus... and then only in a joint mission with Chinese experts. Is Beijing trying to hide something?

The Virus Hunters

 

As the COVID pandemic continues to sweep the world, global scientists search for the source of the deadly virus.

More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic started, its origins remain shrouded in mystery. Scientists from across the world are searching for clues on how the coronavirus jumped from animals to humans.

What the WHO Found in Wuhan | China Unscripted

 The World Health Organization, the WHO, has returned from a trip to China, an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, Covid 19, in Wuhan.

Covid-19 and Wuhan: Why don't we know more? - BBC News

 

As countries scramble to protect themselves against Covid-19, the search for its origin continues.

Biggest Lie of Our Century - WHO Vindicates China

 

The WHO visited the Wuhan lab, and guess what? They all but absolved the Chinese government of nearly any culpability in the pandemic.

3 Days that Stopped the World

Footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak and Chinese government censorship attempts.

Video footage from Wuhan during the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak shows how the Chinese government could have done more to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, and its attempts to stop journalists from reporting on it.

In 3 Days that Stopped the World, two Chinese journalists, through undercover filming and diaries, reveal the almost overnight transformation of the city of 11 million people as nonchalance about the virus was replaced by panic and overcrowded hospitals within hours. The journalists’ names have been not been disclosed for their safety.

WHO Begins Investigation Into COVID-19 Origins

 

13 WHO scientists landed in Wuhan, China, on January 14 to begin investigating the origin of COVID-19.

Covid: WHO to investigate virus origins in China's Wuhan - BBC News

 A team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of Covid-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

With no end in sight to the crisis – where do we go from here?

 

After coronavirus emerged in a market in Wuhan, China, it has affected every single part of the planet.

In efforts to stem the spread, economies have been crippled. This is a global crisis – but it is deeply personal for those affected.

With the World Health Organisation warning it could be the middle of next year before a vaccine is ready, how many more lives will be lost?

Inside Wuhan: Life after coronavirus lockdown

On 8 April, the Chinese government lifted lockdown in Wuhan, the city where the coronavirus pandemic began. Two months on, 11 million people are still trying to restart their lives – and one Wuhan film-maker has set out to capture it.

The Virus: What Went Wrong?

In this 90-minute FRONTLINE documentary special, award-winning journalists Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith trace the coronavirus’s path across the globe and identify a chain of fateful missteps — from Chinese authorities’ early silencing of dissent around the virus's emergence in Wuhan, to the World Health Organization’s failure to more quickly sound the alarm, to Italian officials’ slow initial reaction.

Will the coronavirus pandemic force China to close wildlife markets? | DW News

China is facing pressure globally to crack down on its so-called wet markets, where produce and live animals are often sold together. Scientists have speculated that the current coronavirus outbreak in humans might have begun at a market in the city of Wuhan. One hypothesis is that the virus could have jumped from bats to pangolins to people, in turn causing a global health emergency.

Trump continues to push Wuhan coronavirus lab claim: 'Somebody was stupid'

Donald Trump has told reporters that 'something happened' when asked about the theory that the virus was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 'Probably it was incompetence. Somebody was stupid,' he said during a meeting with the Texas governor, Greg Abbott. It comes after the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, claimed he had seen 'enormous evidence' that the virus had originated at the lab. No evidence has been produced. China has denied the claims.

Donald Trump and his minions will do anything and everything they can to distract Americans from his complete and utter failure as leader during the coronavirus pandemic. The only evidence he's seen has come from his vapid imagination.