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US-China squabbles delayed Covid origins investigations, WHO investigators say But experts are convinced a clear picture will emerge fairly soon, within the next few years, around how the pandemic began 10 March 2021 • 6:35pm Marion Koopmans and Peter Ben Embarek, center, both of the World Health Organization team, say farewell to their Chinese counterpart Liang Wannian after a WHO-China Joint Study Press Conference held at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan, China Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Gu...

‘They’re really quite magical,’ says volcano expert Matthew Watson

COVID-19 may not have originated in China, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) scientist following an investigation which rejected rumours the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan.

The expert believes further investigations are needed beyond China's border.

A rare “smoke ring” has been captured blowing from Guatemala’s Fuego volcano, an active stratovolcano 15 km west of the city of Antigua. Matthew Watson, a professor of volcanoes and climate at the University of Bristol, shared a photo of the sighting on Twitter as part of a virtual “field trip” he is conducting online after having a real-life trip to Guatemala cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. “What a stunning looking volcano,” he wrote...

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There has been criticism over the level of access to key data the team was given by the Chinese.

Professor John Watson served as England’s deputy chief medical officer until 2017.

Updated: 14 Feb 2021, 19:26 Invalid Date, A WHO scientist has admitted the Covid lab leak theory has NOT been ruled out as the team comes under fire over its "whitewash" investigation in China. Professor John Watson, who was part of the WHO team that travelled to Wuhan, stated the leak hypothesis remains on the table and confessed the mission may not have had the proper expertise to fully investigate the lab. 6 6 The Wuhan Institute of Virology lab is the centre of fears about the origins of C...

Boris Johnson today urged China to provide all the evidence on the origins of Covid-19 amid fears over interference in a WHO investigation. The PM insisted the world needs to get to the bottom of how the deadly pandemic emerged, echoing US concerns that scientists are able to conduct an independent probe. The comments came after the fact-finding mission to Wuhan seemed to dismiss theories the virus leaked from a lab last week. WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus later said that all ...