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Wuhan virus: First case of virus reported in Japan
Japan's health ministry confirmed the country's first case of the new coronavirus - known as the Wuhan pneumonia - ahead of the busy Lunar New Year travel period. Health authorities in Wuhan in ...
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COVID-like bat virus discovered by researchers in same Chinese lab accused of leaking deadly 2020 outbreak: study
The virus, unearthed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission, though the infection has not yet been identified in a living person, according to a study ...
A look back at the early days of coronavirus spread
COVID-19 struck the world at a time when China and the U.S. were closing in on trade negotiations, shattering a potential ...
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Virologists Who Downplayed ‘Lab Leak Theory’ Call Out Dangerous Research In Wuhan — Five Years Too Late
Two American virologists with former ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) argue that the lab’s recent research poses unacceptable risks — five years after the worst pandemic in a ...
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How is the new Wuhan coronavirus different from the old? Key differences between SARS-CoV-2 and HKU5-CoV-2
It was initially detected in the Japanese pipistrelle bat species in Hong Kong. Researchers have found that this virus can bind to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors, the same ...
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Japan Fights Its Largest Wildfire in More Than 30 Years
By Jin Yu Young and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno reported from Tokyo. Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after ...
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Marking five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic
We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic,” he says. During the first European ...
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Virus similar to Covid discovered in China's Wuhan, uses same human receptor as…, symptoms and precautions include…
HKU5-CoV-2: A new coronavirus in bats, called HKU5-CoV-2, has been discovered by the scientists at China's Wuhan Institute of ... was initially identified in Japanese pipistrelle bats in Hong ...
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Chinese scientists discover new bat coronavirus that poses risk to humans via same route as Covid-19
A Chinese team discovered a new bat coronavirus that poses a risk of animal-to-human transmission as it uses the same human receptor as the COVID-19 virus, a Hong Kong daily reported on Thursday, ...
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China says Wuhan institute was not involved in creating COVID-19 virus
BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The Wuhan Institute of Virology was not involved in the creation or leakage of the COVID-19 virus, a spokesperson of China's foreign ministry said during a regular ...