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UBG President hails Pak-China submarine agreement

KARACHI: Zubair Tufail, the President of the United Business Group (UBG) and former President of the FPCCI,...

Published 27 Dec, 2025 08:01am

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FBI director says Covid ‘most likely’ caused by Wuhan lab accident

WASHINGTON: FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday his agency believes the Covid-19 pandemic was “most likely”...

Published 01 Mar, 2023 12:15pm

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First Wuhan Covid case days later than initially reported: scientist

WASHINGTON: The first case of Covid-19 identified in Wuhan, China and presented as such by the World Health...

Updated 19 Nov, 2021 12:59pm

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Wuhan completes citywide Covid tests on 11m residents

BEIJING: Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Sunday said they had completed citywide testing of more...

Published 09 Aug, 2021 05:05am

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China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' as Covid returns

The city of 11 million is "swiftly launching comprehensive nucleic acid testing of all residents", senior Wuhan official Li Tao said at a press conference on Tuesday

Published 03 Aug, 2021 09:31am

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Virus strikes twice for India's first Covid patient

The woman tested positive again during a routine check ahead of a trip to New Delhi.

Published 14 Jul, 2021 06:26pm

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China evacuates citizens from Afghanistan as US withdraws troops

A Xiamen Airlines flight departed Kabul for the city of Wuhan on July 2 carrying Chinese citizens who had been stranded in Afghanistan

Updated 10 Jul, 2021 03:40pm

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AFP's Wuhan team wins for virus coverage

BEIJING: AFP's standout coverage of China's lockdown of Wuhan in the earliest stages of the Covid-19 pandemic has...

Published 27 Jun, 2021 03:56am

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Masks off, mortarboards on: Wuhan sheds Covid for mass graduation

More than 2,200 students at Sunday's ceremony were graduates who could not attend their graduation last year due to tight virus restrictions.

Published 15 Jun, 2021 09:57am

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Expert report finds Covid likely jumped to humans from bats through 'missing link'

The report from the international mission to Wuhan has therefore been keenly anticipated ever since the expert team left China more than a month ago.

Published 29 Mar, 2021 05:24pm

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'Likely to very likely' that Covid reached humans through intermediary animal: report

The experts said that the intermediary host hypothesis was deemed "likely to very likely", while the theory.

Published 29 Mar, 2021 01:08pm

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WHO team probing Covid origins in China to brief media

Speculation emerged early in the pandemic that the virus could have accidentally leaked from the lab in Wuhan, although there was no evidence provided to back up that theory.

Published 09 Feb, 2021 10:21am

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China reports no new local COVID-19 infection for first time in nearly two months

The total number of COVID-19 cases in mainland China stands at 89,706, while the death toll is unchanged at 4,636.

Published 08 Feb, 2021 10:35am

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WHO team probing COVID-19 visits Wuhan lab, meets 'Bat Woman'

A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization visited a virus research laboratory in China’s central city of Wuhan and met with a prominent virologist there in its search for clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The experts spent about 3-1/2 hours at the heavily-guarded Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been at the centre of some conspiracy theories that claim a laboratory leak caused the city’s first coronavirus outbreak at the end of 2019.

Published 03 Feb, 2021 07:34pm

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WHO team visits Chinese virus lab in Wuhan

The convoy of cars drove past security to enter a virology institute shrouded in mist Wednesday morning.

Published 03 Feb, 2021 05:43pm

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WHO team to visit Chinese virus lab in Wuhan: state media

China has faced criticism at home and abroad for playing down the initial outbreak and concealing information when it first emerged in Wuhan in December 2019.

Published 03 Feb, 2021 10:24am

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WHO expert says China mission going 'very well'

The UN agency hit back at critics on Monday, telling a press conference in Geneva, "if you have the answers... please let us know."

Published 02 Feb, 2021 05:14pm

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WHO team in Wuhan to visit provincial CDC on Monday

No full itinerary for the group's field work has been announced, and journalists covering the tightly controlled visit have been kept at a distance from team members.

Published 01 Feb, 2021 01:28pm

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WHO experts probe ground-zero China market

WUHAN, (China): A team of WHO experts investigating the origins of Covid-19 on Sunday went to a market in Wuhan ...

Published 01 Feb, 2021 03:39am

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WHO probe team visits Wuhan market at heart of first virus outbreak

The mission, delayed by China and weighed down by political baggage, has a remit to explore how the virus jumped from animal to human.

Published 31 Jan, 2021 05:41pm

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WHO team visits Wuhan market where first COVID infections detected

No exact itinerary has not been announced, but the WHO has said the team plans to visit Huanan market and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Published 31 Jan, 2021 01:05pm

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WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that took first Covid-19 patients

The WHO insists the probe will stick tightly to the science behind how the virus jumped from animals -- believed to be bats -- to humans.

Published 30 Jan, 2021 05:56pm

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WHO virus probe team visits China propaganda exhibit, hospital in Wuhan

On Friday, the WHO's emergencies director Michael Ryan sought to manage expectations.

Published 30 Jan, 2021 05:39pm

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WHO China mission set to begin as US demands 'robust' virus origin probe

She also expressed concern about the "misinformation" from "some sources in China".

Published 28 Jan, 2021 06:02pm

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WHO team to start Wuhan virus probe under global glare

The virus is believed to have come from bats and to have initially spread from a wet market in Wuhan where wild animals were sold as food.

Published 28 Jan, 2021 05:42pm

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WHO team probing coronavirus origins in China's Wuhan leaves quarantine

A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic left a quarantine hotel in Wuhan on Thursday to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city where the virus emerged in late 2019.
The mission has been plagued by delays, concerns over access and bickering between China and the United States, which has accused Beijing of hiding the extent of the initial outbreak and has criticised the terms of the visit.

Updated 28 Jan, 2021 02:29pm

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WHO team to start Wuhan virus probe under global glare

The group started a two-week quarantine on arrival on January 14 in the central Chinese city where the first known cluster of virus cases emerged in late 2019.

Published 28 Jan, 2021 12:38pm

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Wuhan marks a year since lockdown as Biden warns of 600,000 dead

Globally, the virus has killed more than two million people, infected tens of millions of others and hammered economies.

Published 23 Jan, 2021 05:46pm

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Wuhan bustles a year after world's first coronavirus lockdown

On Saturday, the city where Covid-19 was first detected in late 2019 marks one year since it was locked down to crush the outbreak.

Published 21 Jan, 2021 12:01pm

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WHO says UK strain in over 60 countries as Biden mourns Covid victims

In its weekly update, the WHO announced the strain first found in the UK was now in 10 more countries than seven days ago.

Published 20 Jan, 2021 05:52pm