China on Wednesday shut down a key terminal at its Ningbo-Zhoushan port, the third busiest port in the world, after one worker was found to be infected by Covid.
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China’s new US envoy stresses importance of Taiwan in first high level meeting
China’s newly appointed ambassador in Washington stressed the utmost importance of Taiwan in the Sino-U.S. relationship during his first meeting with a top U.S. official since assuming the job, …
China pressured Covid-19 probe to drop lab-leak theory, says WHO scientist in a documentary
The Wuhan branch of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention was handling coronaviruses ‘without potentially having the same level of expertise or safety or who knows’.WHO concluded that …
Covid-19 patient zero may have worked at a lab in Wuhan, China
A World Health Organization expert says in a documentary that patient zero for Covid-19 may have worked at a lab in Wuhan, China. Jamie Metzl, the Atlantic Council and a W.H.O. advisor, joins The News…
‘Canadians won’t be safe at 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics,’ Canada’s opposition leader says
Canadians should consider boycotting next year’s Beijing Winter Olympics over safety concerns, according to the leader of the Conservatives. Erin O’Toole claimed tha …
China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism cracks down on karaoke bars, creates ‘blacklist’ of unapproved songs
Chinese authorities have announced a “blacklist” for karaoke songs that will go into effect at the start of October, according to state-run media.
China cities declare rain ‘red alerts’ amid power cuts, floods
Five cities in the central Chinese province of Hubei have declared “red alerts” after torrential rain caused power cuts and destroyed homes, forcing the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people, state media …
WHO calls on China to release data needed for Covid-19 origins probe, notes that ‘lab theory’ still on the table
Responding to Chinese concerns over the probe into the ‘lab hypothesis’ of the pandemic’s origin, the World Health Organization said it wasn’t playing politics but seeking the necessary data and …
Head of WHO Team Investigating Origins of Covid-19 Calls For Closer Look at China Lab
Peter Ben Embarek’s remarks mark the biggest departure by a member of the WHO’s team from their view at a news conference in February that a laboratory incident was too unlikely to merit further …
China signals crackdown on privacy, data, anti-trust to go on
China will draft new laws on national security, technology innovation, monopolies and education, as well as in areas involving foreigners, the national leadership said in a document published late on …
WHO Urges China To Share Raw Data On Early COVID-19 Cases
The WHO on Thursday urged China to share raw data from the earliest Covid-19 cases to advance the pandemic origins probe — and release data to address the lab leak theory.
Documentary probing COVID source puts China lab back under spotlight
The idea that the coronavirus pandemic originated accidentally via Chinese laboratory workers has surfaced again, this time in a documentary aired by Danish TV on Thursday.
COVID-19 lab leak theory a ‘probable hypothesis,’ WHO scientist says in stunning reversal
The first person infected with COVID-19 could have caught the virus from a bat while working at the controversial Wuhan virology lab.
