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February 18, 2021 published at 12:46 AMReuters Pfizer and BioNTech said they were doing similar lab work to understand whether their vaccine is effective against another variant first found in Brazil. Reuters CHICAGO  - A laboratory study suggests that the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce antibody protection from the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE vaccine by two-thirds, and it is not clear if the shot will be effective against the mutation, the companies said on Wednesday (Feb 17). ...

Invalid Date, FURY is growing as the World Health Organisation was accused of a "whitewash" as it found Covid likely didnt originate at the Wuhan wet market or come from a lab leak. Both suggestions that the virus could have originally crossed to humans at the Huanan Seafood Market, or escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were thrown out in a lengthy joint press conference. 8 8 It was originally claimed the virus jumped to humans at the Huanan Seafood MarketCredit: AP:Associated...

New York Times: W.H.O. experts investigating the origin of the virus visit a lab in Wuhan Posted on A team of experts from the World Health Organization investigating the origins of the pandemic visited a research center in Wuhan, China, on Wednesday that has been a focus of several unfounded theories about the coronavirus. The W.H.O. scientists met with staff members at the center, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which houses a state-of-the-art laboratory known for its research on coronavir...

The coronavirus pandemic definitely started in China, according to a scientific study that has traced the mother of all Covid-19 infections and its initial descendants to the country. The groundbreaking research by US experts, which analysed samples from thousands of coronavirus patients, also established that the outbreak almost certainly began in October 2019. Their findings challenge Beijings attempts to divert attention to other nations as the pandemics birthplace, with officials arguing th...

A study has shown even better results against several key mutations from the highly transmissible UK variant

Number 10 described the move as disappointing, insisting that it was vital the probe happens. Tory MP and founder of Britains China Research Group, Tom Tugendhat, accused Beijing of shameful behaviour. He said the failure to investigate puts everyone at risk of a repeat, and particularly those who are closest - the Chinese people. And Sari Haven, of the Mercator Institute for China Studies think-tank, dismissed the regimes claim that a visa issue led to the team being denied entry. She said: Of...

coronavirus is that it escaped from a laboratory in Matthew Pottinger, who is President Donald Trump‘s respected Deputy National Security Adviser, told politicians from around the world that even China’s leaders now openly admit their previous claims that the virus originated in a Wuhan market are false. Mr Pottinger said that the latest intelligence points to the virus leaking from the top-secret Wuhan Institute of Virology, 11 miles from the market, saying: ‘There is a growing body of...

Yet we still know little about how and why the virus spread with such devastating consequences. It can almost certainly be traced to bats. But we do not know how this pathogen – having evolved an extraordinary ability to infect, causing such damage to different bodily organs – made the jump into human beings. At last, a World Health Organisation investigation is under way into the origins of the coronavirus, but it is accused of meekly pandering to Chinas agenda by recruiting patsy scientis...

One of Americas most senior government officials says the most credible theory about the origin of coronavirus is that it escaped from a laboratory in China. Matthew Pottinger, who is President Donald Trumps respected Deputy National Security Adviser, told politicians from around the world that even Chinas leaders now openly admit their previous claims that the virus originated in a Wuhan market are false. Mr Pottinger said that the latest intelligence points to the virus leaking from the top-s...

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