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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). The study found the vaccine was still able to neutralise the virus and there is not yet evidence fro...

Invalid Date, FURY is growing as the World Health Organisation was accused of a "whitewash" as it found Covid likely didn't 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 Press WHO's findings appeared to largely back Communist Party protestations that the virus may hav...

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 coronaviruses. The institute came under scrutiny last year as the Trump administration promoted the unsubsta...

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 Beijing's attempts to divert attention to other nations as the pandemic's birthplace, with officials arguing that the virus may have been imported into Wuhan, in China's Hubei province. The study's suggested...

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