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The World Health Organization recommended in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is needed into whether a lab accident may be to blame.

Volunteers and government workers in Shanghai erected metal barriers in multiple districts to block off small streets and entrances to apartment complexes, as China hardens its strict “zero-COVID” approach.

Authorities reported three COVID-19 deaths of the latest outbreak in China's most populous city and said all three were elderly, had underlying conditions and had not been vaccinated.

The abrupt lockdown left the public fuming about lack of access to food and medicine. The decision came after a video posted online allegedly showed people who ran out of food breaking into a supermarket.

The studies offer the strongest evidence to date of a link between the animals at the seafood market and the spread of SARS-CoV-2. A top virus sleuth gives the details.

Sean Doody believes the coronavirus likely came from animals that were illegally trafficked to a wet market in China, and it’s only a matter of time before it happens again.

The World Health Organization advisory group will include scientists from the U.S., China and two dozen other countries and will study various hypotheses, including the possibility of a lab leak.

The 2022 Winter Games will be in Beijing. Chinese vaccines were bought by the IOC and also made available for delegations heading to the Tokyo Summer Games.

After a 90-day review, U.S investigators did not turn up any clear answer on whether the coronavirus hopped from an animal to a human — or somehow escaped from a lab.

The international scientists dispatched to China by WHO to look for the origins of the coronavirus say the search has “stalled” and warn the window for getting to the bottom of the mystery is closing fast.