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[ad_1] WUHAN: A World Health Organization (WHO) team leaves China on Wednesday (February 10) after gaining new insights into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 millions of people around the world, but with the main questions still. unanswered. The visit was politically sensitive …

[ad_1] SYDNEY – Australia is considering controversial plans to set up isolated rural quarantine camps for people entering from abroad as the country tries to close the final gap in its efforts to combat Covid-19. The proposal to move quarantine facilities away from hotels in dense urban centers was first …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats began formally advocating Wednesday (Feb. 10) that former President Donald Trump should be sentenced for inciting a siege on the U.S. Capitol, a day after a divided Senate concluded that his impeachment could continue even though Trump has already left office. The House of Representatives …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Images and videos of protests across Myanmar were broadcast and shared online last week almost immediately as events unfolded in the country, a far cry from what it was in the past. With smartphones in the hands of more than 20 million people in the country, it has …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The Government unveiled the Singapore Green Plan 2030 on Wednesday (February 10), a “nationwide movement” to advance the national agenda on sustainable development. The plan, which is headed by the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Ministry of National Development (MND), the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment (MSE), the …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: The United States distanced itself on Tuesday (February 9) from a theory propagated by former President Donald Trump that COVID-19 came from a Chinese laboratory and expressed support for the WHO researchers. A World Health Organization mission to China said on Tuesday it had been unable to find …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: The World Economic Forum (WEF) team, including its founder and CEO Klaus Schwab, are in Singapore to prepare for the Special Annual Meeting in August. In a Facebook post on Tuesday (February 9), Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said that he had an extensive discussion with …

[ad_1] BEIJING – Experts from the World Health Organization and China have quashed the controversial theory that the coronavirus had leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, suggesting instead that the Covid-19 virus likely infected humans from an intermediate animal host. The possibility that Covid-19 could have resulted from a laboratory incident …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE – Horseshoe bats carrying coronaviruses very similar to the one that causes Covid-19 have been found outside of China, so the pandemic may not necessarily have originated in the country, scientists say in a new study. The virus likely reached the Chinese city of Wuhan from elsewhere, said …

[ad_1] WUHAN (REUTERS, AFP) – The head of the team led by the World Health Organization in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, investigating the origins of Covid-19, said on Tuesday (February 9) that the Cold chain virus transmission is a possibility and thorough investigation is warranted. “Cold chain” refers …