Tag: Wuhan
Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is being taken seriously
The lab-leak theory has been strongly rejected by China Nearly a year and a half since Covid-19 was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of how the virus first emerged remains a mystery. But in recent weeks the controversial claim that the pandemic might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory – once
WHO Said What About Wuhan?
Chinese policy makers have been floating an implausible theory: The novel coronavirus didn’t originate in China but was imported from Europe. That’s what a former chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention told an academic conference last fall. One theory is the virus rode into Wuhan on frozen-food packaging. This month
As WHO mission leaves Wuhan, China claims propaganda win on coronavirus origins
As the WHO mission departs China this week, it has yielded scant new public information about the pandemic’s origins but plenty of ammunition for a Chinese government that has long argued that the source was probably not its markets — and certainly not its labs. Although one pronouncement from the joint Chinese-WHO team mirrored the
