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Journalist Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison again for her human rights reporting after covering the early days of the pandemic.COVID-19 in WuhanHuman rights journalist Zhang Zhan, who was previously sentenced to four years in prison for covering the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China, has been sentenced to a similar term, writesREUTERS . 42-year-old Zhang Zhan wa...

New variants and strains of coronavirus emerge regularly because people themselves act as a "filter" for older variants of the virus. This was stated by Sergei Netesov, a virologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and head of the Laboratory of Bionanotechnology, Microbiology, and Virology at the Novosibirsk State University Natural Sciences Department, to RBC. He commented on the ...

Трамп подписал указ, запрещающий финансирование исследований потенциально опасных вирусов, в том числе за рубежом. Такие исследования необходимы, чтобы подготовить человечество к возможным пандемиям, отмечали вирусологи Президент США Дональд Трамп подписал указ, запрещающий федеральное финансирование «опасных исследований по усилению функций патогенов без надлежащего контроля» в Китае, Иране и дру...

Отделение интенсивной терапии в больнице в Ухане, Китай, во время пандемии COVID-19, 2020 год Вирус COVID-19 мог распространиться по миру из-за утечки в лаборатории в китайском городе Ухань, считает госсекретарь США Марко Рубио. Об этом он сказал в интервью с журналисткой Кэтрин Херридж, опубликованном на ее странице в X. «С моей точки зрения, основанной на том, что мне известно, вероятнее всего, ...

Ухань Заявления Центрального разведывательного управления (ЦРУ) США о лабораторном происхождении коронавируса являются политической манипуляцией, направленной на очернение Китая, заявил ТАСС пресс-секретарь китайского посольства в Вашингтоне Лю Пэнъюй. «Это все те же старые политические манипуляции относительно происхождения, которые не заслуживают доверия», — сказал он. По словам дипломата, возни...

WHO Chief Scientist announced his intention to organize a mission to China to determine the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but only if the Chinese authorities are ready to share all the informationIt is more likely that COVID-19 is of natural origin than that it was created in a laboratory, World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Jeremy Farrar said in an interview with The Financial Times...

National intelligence has previously doubted the laboratory origin of COVID-19 . China refused to cooperate with the WHO in the investigation of the origin of the virus and accused the organization of political posturing US National Intelligence did not see evidence of a possible incident during the study of coronaviruses in the Wuhan laboratory, which could lead to a COVID-19 pandemic. This is st...

Analysts from Airfinity conducted risk modeling and found that the likelihood of a pandemic similar to COVID in the next 10 years is about 28%. They urged to pay attention to viruses, There is a 27.5% chance of a new coronavirus-like pandemic occurring over the next ten years, analysts at Airfinity, a British healthcare company, have concluded. Experts conducted risk modeling. “Climate change, the...

The causative agent of COVID-19 could be transmitted to humans from an infected raccoon dog. This conclusion was reached by a group of virologists, gene specialists and evolutionary biologists from Europe, North America and Australia, writes The New York Times, citing a report that has not yet been published. Experts analyzed smears taken at the seafood and livestock market in the Chinese city of ...

China rejects US version of laboratory origin of COVIDadmitted that the COVID pandemic began due to a leak from a Chinese laboratory. Beijing criticized the theory and recalled the findings of the WHO. It is necessary to stop discrediting China and politicizing the issue of the origin of the coronavirus, declaring a possible leak of COVID-19 from a Chinese laboratory, Chinese Foreign Ministry spok...

suspends investigation into the origin of coronaviruscooperate with the organization's experts The World Health Organization (WHO) has postponed the second phase of its investigation into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus due to difficulties in conducting research in China, according to the journal Nature. The first stage was held in January 2......

Protests have been held in China against the "zero tolerance" policy towards the coronavirus. Experts interviewed by RBC are convinced that How massive were the protests in China? On November 28, another maximum in the number of new infections with coronavirus was recorded in China - a positive result was diagnosed in more than 4......

Since November 25, China has been gripped by protests against the severe covid restrictions, which are due to the state policy of "zero tolerance" for COVID-19 . Protesters take to the streets of cities demanding to loosen control. What is happening in China - in RBC's photo report Photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images In the photo: Beijing, China, November 28 On November 24, a fire broke out in an apa...

The number of people infected with coronavirus in Hubei province, which is the focus of the epidemic, has suddenly increased significantly. During the day there were recorded almost 15 thousand new infections (instead of the usual 2 thousand), almost 13.5 thousand of them fall on Wuhan. This is reported by the Committee on Hygiene and Public Health in the region. As RIA "Novosti" notes, the author...

On Sunday, 97 more people died infected with the coronovirus - the highest number of casualties in one day. The total number of deaths from coronavirus exceeded the number of victims of the SARS (SARS) epidemic in 2003. At the same time, the number of new cases of this infection has stabilized, but experts say that it is premature to say that the epidemic has reached its peak. In China's Hubei pro...

According to the latest data from the State Health Committee of China , 563 people have died from the novel coronavirus, with 28,018 cases confirmed. The death toll from the virus continues to rise. Doctors have recorded 28,018 confirmed cases of the disease, 1,153 people have been cured, 26,302 are in quarantine, 563 people have died. 282,813 people were found who had close contact with the infec...