Coronavirus: Hong Kong researchers get HK$100 million in grants to look into origins of Covid-19…


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Hong Kong researchers will comb through a collection containing more than 6,000 animal samples in an effort to uncover the source of Covid-19 under a recently approved measure setting aside HK$100 million (US$12.9 million) in public funding for coronavirus-related studies. The grants will also go towards research into potential new treatments for Covid-19, the transmissibility of the virus’ major variants and the effectiveness of administering third doses of the BioNTech and Sinovac vaccines . More than 18 months into the pandemic, researchers from around the world still have not definitively traced the origins of the coronavirus. Despite renewed interest in...