Fact check: The virus that causes COVID-19 has been isolated, and is the basis for the vaccines currently in development https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-fact ... SKBN28E2SB [written by Reuters Staff , whoever that is]
The first 3 links they provide are from the WHO https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease ... -causes-it and https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topi ... -2019-ncovSocial media posts have suggested that the contents of the vaccines for COVID-19 are not known, because the virus that causes the disease has not been isolated. This is not true.
The posts read: “IF NO ONE HAS ISOLATED THE VIRUS, THEN WHAT’S IN THE VACCINE??” (here , here , here).
The virus that causes the disease COVID-19 is called Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2 (here).
The virus was identified by Chinese authorities on Jan. 7, 2020 (tinyurl.com/y5at3vke), after which its genetic material (RNA) was sequenced (here)...
No evidence of isolation in those articles. I thought I'd look further. From January 2020:On 31 December 2019, WHO was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan City, China. A novel coronavirus was identified as the cause by Chinese authorities on 7 January 2020 and was temporarily named “2019-nCoV”.
A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31978945/
So, I did a search for "National Key Research and Development Program of China"....Abstract
In December 2019, a cluster of patients with pneumonia of unknown cause was linked to a seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, China. A previously unknown betacoronavirus was discovered through the use of unbiased sequencing in samples from patients with pneumonia. Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily. Different from both MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, 2019-nCoV is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans. Enhanced surveillance and further investigation are ongoing. (Funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China and the National Major Project for Control and Prevention of Infectious Disease in China.).
Launch of the National Key Research and Development Program “The Research of Key Technologies of 3D Reconstruction to Smart City By Using the Slope Photography Integrated with Beidou/Galileo/LiDar” http://global.cumt.edu.cn/info/1037/1224.htm
andThe launch of “The Research of Key Technologies of 3D Reconstruction to Smart City by Using the integrated Big Dipper’s slope photography of GalileoLiDar”, a key project of Inter-governmental International Innovation Cooperation under the National Key Research and Development Program of China, was hosted by Professor BianZhengfu of CUMT.
This strategic project, approved in 2019, is a key program of the inter-governmental technology and innovation cooperation between the Chinese government andthe government of Slovak Republic with China University of Mining and Technology as the lead institution. The project is headed by Professor Bianand is supported by Professor Vladimir Sedlak of the University of PavolJozefŠafárikin Slovakia....
The project is supported by various stakeholders including Chen Zishen, the Vice-General Manager of ARSC Underground Space Technology Development Co. Ltd and Wang Xiaoqiang, the deputy director of the municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning of Xuzhou.
Launching of A New National Key Research and Development Program of China Led by Our School — the project“Key Technologies for the Preparation of New Fluorosilicic Materials”has passed the Argumentation.
http://enscce.hit.edu.cn/2017/1218/c439 ... 7/page.htm
Re Prof. Vladimír Sedlák... here's a paper he co-authored for the 2nd FIG Regional Conference Marrakech, Morocco, December 2-5, 2003 :2017:
In recent days, the project“Key Technologies for the Preparation of New Fluorosilicic Materials”led by Huang Yudong, the professor of our School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, has passed the argumentation, marking the official launch of the project. This is a National Key Research and Development Program of China.
This project is 47 million 80 thousand yuan in total for 4 years. Led by the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of HIT, the project also associated several scientific research team, which combined production, education and research together, including Zhejiang Juhua Co., Ltd, Juhua Group Technology Center, Zhejiang Transfar Chemicals, Hangzhou Normal University, Zhejiang University, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology and Shandong Institute of Marine Technology.
Protection of the Environment and Modelling Surface Movements in GIS in the East Slovak Region https://www.fig.net/resources/proceedin ... _et_al.pdf
https://fig.net/news/archive/news_2004/ ... report.asp
The 2nd FIG Regional Conference was arranged in Marrakech, Morocco December 2-5, 2003 under the high patronage of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI. It was organised by the International Federation of Surveyors, FIG and the Ordre National des Ingénieurs Géomètres-Topographes ONIGT, which is the FIG member association of Morocco. Like the 1st FIG Regional Conference, which was held in Nairobi, Kenya in 2001 this 2nd conference was co-sponsored by several United Nations’ agencies including FAO, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UN ECA). Further co-sponsors included the Arab Union of Surveyors (AUS), which also had its Executive Committee meeting during the conference, as well as the Arab Urban Development Institute.
The total number of participants exceeded 420 representing more than 40 countries. Even though the focus of the conference was in the Arabic countries and Francophone Africa the participation covered the whole world. Totally 14 countries from the region were present at the conference even though sometimes it is easier to travel via Europe. FIG Council and Commission officers meetings and annual meeting of Commission 3 (Spatial Information Management) and open meetings of Commission 5 (Measurement and Positioning) attracted national delegates from Europe, Asia, America and Australia.
The conference was organised under the theme of “Urban-rural interrelationship for sustainable environment”, which is one of the hot topics in the international discussion at the moment. Therefore it was encouraging that the UN agencies that are mostly involved in this topic participated. The contributions at the plenary sessions were given by Don Okpala from UN-Habitat, David Palmer from FAO and Svein Tveitdal from UNEP, who is also the new UNEP focal point for FIG. During the conference future co-operation between UNEP and FIG was discussed. It was agreed that the joint activities will include projects on environmental risk and disaster management and capacity building on environmental issues. FIG has further established a new joint commission working group on “risk management – preventing environmental catastrophes by spatial planning and land management..