Covid: China rejects WHO plan for second phase of virus origin probe
China has rejected terms proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to further investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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EU leaders urge unfettered probe into origins of COVID-19
The WHO study in January and February was "insufficient and inconclusive", the U.S. mission to the U.N. in Geneva said in a statement last month, calling for what it called a timely, transparent and evidence-based second probe to be conducted, including in China.
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Coronavirus: WHO says lab leak theory 'unlikely' but cannot identify animal that carried virus
Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO virus expert, also told a press briefing that work to identify the origins of the coronavirus points to a natural reservoir in bats, but it is unlikely that they were in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the outbreak was discovered in late 2019.
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Coronavirus updates: China denies cover-up as Wuhan death toll revised up by 50%
Brazil’s president fires health minister; IMF predicts zero economic growth in Latin America and Caribbean; UK extends lockdown by three weeks
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China coronavirus: Death toll rises as more cities shut down
Coronavirus: Chinese hospitals in chaos as lockdown spreads to affect 33m people. Public transport suspended in at least 10 cities as death toll rises and heath care centres struggle to cope with influx of patients.
![China has widened a lockdown in Hubei province - the centre of the coronavirus outbreak - as the death toll climbed to 26.]()
Coronavirus: panic and anger in Wuhan as China orders city into lockdown
Supermarket shelves are empty and face masks have sold out as residents of city at the centre of the deadly virus hoard supplies and retreat inside. Second Chinese city under coronavirus lockdown
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