Mink may be host of coronavirus’ origin: China’s ‘Bat Woman’
Zhang Hui Published: Jan 15, 2021 09:22 PM
Shi Zhengli. Photo: Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)
While the World Health Organization s expert team is in Wuhan to investigate how the coronavirus jumped to humans from animals, China s Bat Woman Shi Zhengli said in an article that mink could be a possible host of the origin of the novel coronavirus, and called on the world to investigate samples from more susceptible animals to determine when the virus moved to humans.
Chinese virologists said Shi s article proves that the mystery of the virus origin needs investigations in many countries and research on more animal species, and WHO s investigation in Wuhan, although unlikely to find the answer of the origin, will lay a good foundation for further investigations in more countries.
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All eyes on Foreign Minister Gyawali s Delhi visit for Nepal to procure Covid-19 vaccines Kathmandu Post
Kathmandu, Jan. 11 With the coronavirus vaccine becoming a political commodity , to use the words of a minister, the government is hoping that there will be a breakthrough in talks with India for Nepal to procure vaccines before Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali s Delhi visit later this week. We think that we will get vaccines for about half a million people from India as a goodwill gesture, said an official at the Prime Minister s Office familiar with the matter, who wished to remain anonymous because he was not allowed to talk to the media.
The new year starts on January 1, but in Spain, with its long and unusual Christmas holidays, it doesnât really get going until January 7, once the Three Kings have departed. On January 7, 2020, the lower house of parliament, the Congress of Deputies, swore in Pedro Sánchez as prime minister. That same day, in China, scientists discovered what was causing strange cases of pneumonia in the province of Hubei: a virus similar to the one that caused SARS, a disease that rocked a number of Asian countries in 2003 and disappeared several months later. The script for 2020 changed forever. Back then, no one could have imagined what was soon to arrive: from the biggest pandemic the world has seen in generations, to a vaccine created in record time to eradicate it. Itâs been a year of masks, lockdowns, social distancing, PCR tests and curve-flattening. A year when we could no longer hug one another.
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Mariyam Malsa
28 December 2020, MVT 11:42
Frontliners donned in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Hulhumale Medical Faciltiy (HMF). PHOTO: NISHAN ALI/ MIHAARU
Mariyam Malsa
28 December 2020, MVT 11:42
The Health Emergency Operations Centre (HEOC), on Monday, revealed that an individual that returned to Maldives from the United Kingdom (UK) had tested positive for COVID-19.
HEOC stated that it was currently unable to confirm whether or not the aforementioned case is linked to the new COVID-19 variant which is rapidly spreading in UK at present.
According to the centre, the individual was allowed to enter Maldives after travelling to UK without being required to quarantine, as per the Health Protection Agency (HPA) announcement cancelling mandatory quarantine for locals returning from abroad.
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