CAMBODIA /JAPAN
Relatives of pandemic virus found in labs in Cambodia and Japan
By Nicola Smith
The Telegraph, 25 November 2020
From the article:
Scientists have discovered coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the pandemic, have been stored for several years in laboratory freezers in Cambodia and Japan, supporting a theory that Covid-19 may not have originally emerged from China.
PORTUGAL (& INDIA)
Portuguese court rules PCR tests as unreliable & unlawful to quarantine people
GreatGameIndia, 18 November 2020
From the article:
The court stated, the test’s reliability depends on the number of cycles used and the viral load present.
Also mentions:
The threshold cycles used in PCR tests in India is between 37 and 40, which makes the reliability of the PCR test less than 3% and the false positive rate as high as 97%.