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Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab.

The homeless, the sick, the elderly: For people who fell through the cracks of the official system, the then-unprecedented decision to isolate the central Chinese city of Wuhan and its 13 million people was a matter of life or death

In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford who had been tracking messaging that Chinese diplomats and state media spread on Twitter for 18 months, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory.

U.S. intelligence agencies are still divided on the origins of the coronavirus, but believe China’s leaders did not know about the virus before the start of the global pandemic

Economists are concerned that strict measures by the government to control the Covid-19 outbreak would hurt the Chinese economy.

China has suspended flights and trains, canceled professional basketball league games and announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as widening outbreaks of the delta variant reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019

A recurring clash between the government’s top infectious disease doctor and a U.S. senator has erupted again on Capitol Hill, with each accusing the other of lying.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, had a heated exchange during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on COVID-19.

A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic — and with a death toll approaching 4 million lives — how the coronavirus came to spark a global scourge remains unknown. Was it the result of a spillover from an animal to a human, as has happened repeatedly in the past? Or did the virus accidentally escape from a nearby lab...

President Joe Biden has asked the intelligence community to “redouble” their efforts to get to the bottom of the origins of the coronavirus after new reports raised questions about whether it spread from a Wuhan laboratory in China, NBC News reports.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday that the Biden administration supports an international investigation into the source of the coronavirus after reports surfaced that three Wuhan researchers were hospitalized in November 2019 after falling ill. Psaki also cautioned people from drawing conclusions ahead of a formal inquiry, saying, “What we can’t do, and what I would caution...

The new details, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, add to the body of circumstantial evidence that supports a hypothesis that the COVID-19 virus may have spread to humans after it escaped from a Chinese research lab in Wuhan. But the evidence is far from conclusive.

Back-to-back tornadoes have killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured

A team of international and Chinese scientists is poised to report on its joint search for the origins of the coronavirus that sparked a pandemic after it was first detected in China over a year ago

A University of San Diego law professor is under fire for what even the school is calling disparaging and biased language used in a blog post about the suspected origin of the coronavirus, a conspiracy the Chinese government denies. Because the investigation into these remarks is just starting, NBC 7 is not naming the tenured professor or his blog page….

A World Health Organization team is leaving China after gaining some new insights into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide

A team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 says the coronavirus most likely appeared in humans after jumping from an animal

The message honoring the Chinese whistleblower doctor who died of the coronavirus a year ago was tucked into a bouquet of chrysanthemums left by a mourner at the back of Wuhan Central Hospital

Investigators from the World Health Organization visited a research center in Wuhan on Wednesday.

China has complained to Canada over T-shirts ordered an embassy worker that allegedly mocked China’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, in an apparent mix-up between the city of Wuhan and the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.