The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Monday sided with the Chinese Communist Party and rejected claims by Washington that a secretive laboratory in the southern China city of Wuhan spawned the global coronavirus epidemic.
United States Senate candidate Jeff Sessions says there is no shortage of American labor, calling out lawmakers and their “corporate friends” for supporting a continued flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take jobs in the midst of mass unemployment.
Banks will introduce a bill on Tuesday to prevent China from making “predatory” investments in American firms during the coronavirus pandemic.
Chinese state media on Monday was brimming with upbeat accounts of travelers crossing the country and flooding into tourist attractions to celebrate May Day, a major holiday for the Communist country.
Chinese state media on Monday claimed U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was merely bluffing when he said on Sunday there is “enormous evidence” that the coronavirus originated at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus writes that the new lawsuit by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt may help Americans get answers about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak that China’s Communist Party is clearly trying to hide. From Fox News: Last week, reports showed that
Taiwan has “not yet” received an invitation to a meeting this month of the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) lead decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, the government said on Monday.
Foreign states are mounting “utterly reprehensible” cyber-attacks against British universities researching the coronavirus, according to security sources.
(AFP) — Europe on Sunday prepared for a further cautious easing of coronavirus restrictions following signs the pandemic may be slowing, after Spaniards flocked to the streets to jog, cycle and rollerskate for the first time after 48 days of confinement.
The intelligence community has not ruled out the coronavirus was a bioweapon, but there is more belief that it was research that escaped.
A Chinese man whose father died of coronavirus on February 1 after being admitted to a Wuhan hospital for an unrelated issue told Al Jazeera this week he blames the Wuhan government for the death.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intentionally destroyed evidence and covered up news about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak to the “endangerment of other countries”, a leaked intelligence report has found.
Dr. Gauden Galea, the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) representative in China, told Sky News on Friday that the Chinese have refused W.H.O.’s repeated requests to participate in an investigation of the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday lamented a lack of global leadership in the fight against the Chinese coronavirus while pointing to a poor response to his call for extra funds to underwrite the battle.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Thursday issued a rare, unanimous Intelligence Community (IC) statement on the origins of the novel coronavirus, confirming that the IC is investigating whether the outbreak “began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, has warned that Britain is “nowhere near the end” of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
China’s state newspaper China Daily – typically one of the least belligerent in the stable of Communist Party-run outlets – published a column Thursday claiming that America had a history of “bacteriological warfare” to imply the possibility the Chinese coronavirus pandemic was created by the U.S. military.
A Chinese firm conducting trial coronavirus vaccine research is reportedly looking for foreign human guinea pigs to step up and volunteer to test their work.
Australia’s refusal to retreat from its call for a global inquiry into the causes of the coronavirus pandemic continued to draw a furious response from Beijing on Wednesday, with Chinese media claiming Australia is forever making trouble, “a bit like chewing gum stuck on the sole of China’s shoes.”
Residents of the city of Wuhan, source of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, expressed doubts about the Chinese government’s claim on Monday that absolutely no one is currently hospitalized with Chinese coronavirus.
Claims a maximum security laboratory in China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan is the source of the deadly global pandemic were vigorously denied Monday night for the second time in a little over a week by the institute’s director.
China remains the single largest beneficiary of the United States’ various student visa programs — sending more of its young nationals to the U.S. every year than Europe and Africa combined.
Trump said at a press briefing the administration is conducting “serious investigations” to hold China accountable for the coronavirus.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has informed a company that used a taxpayer grant to provide U.S. tax dollars to the Wuhan lab in China–from which some authorities believe the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic emanated–that the Wuhan lab is formally being investigated by U.S. officials.
China has rejected calls for an independent international investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, according to a recent BBC report.
China’s state media urged the world on Sunday to ignore “sinister” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s assertions that the Communist Party could have stopped the Chinese coronavirus outbreak from becoming a pandemic, deeming him “the worst U.S. secretary of state in its history.”
The UK will no longer recognise the number of coronavirus deaths reported by China over fake data fears from the country.
Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” Rudy Giuliani, personal legal counsel for President Donald Trump, accused the President Barack Obama administration in 2014 of funding the Wuhan laboratory in which the coronavirus is believed to have originated.
The British government will finally begin implementing mandatory 14-day quarantines for people entering the country, months after countries around the world enacted similar measures to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
Beijing wants citizens to “dress neatly,” stop spitting and refrain from defecating in public places as it strives to eliminate “uncivilized” behavior amid the deadly Chinese coronavirus outbreak.
The number of new coronavirus cases continued on a downward trend in Italy after its first day in which more people recovered from the disease than were infected.
MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that Spaniards will be allowed to leave their homes for short walks and exercise starting on May 2 after seven weeks of strict home confinement.
LONDON (AP) – Britain’s government on Saturday defended the independence of the scientists advising it on the coronavirus after it emerged that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial chief aide had attended meetings of the group.
ROME (AP) — Italy will start distributing free protective masks to nursing homes, many of which have been devastated by coronavirus infections and deaths.
BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization is cautioning against the idea of “immunity passports.” It says there is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected against a second infection.
A government employee in the central Chinese province of Hubei – home to Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in China – is suing the provincial government over its handling of the outbreak.
A Wuhan citizen journalist who went missing two months ago while reporting on the coronavirus reappeared on Wednesday and said he had been forcibly quarantined by police, the New York Post reported on Wednesday.
An online petition demanding the resignation of embattled World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus over his handling of the global coronavirus pandemic passed one million signatures early Friday morning.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday that it will donate another $30 million to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), which is under growing scrutiny from member states for its poor handling of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and its suspicious tendency to toe the political line from Beijing.
Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims, has called on the German government to give aid to mosques struggling financially due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
