FEW of us had heard of the Chinese city of Wuhan when the world was first paralysed by Covid-19 five years ago. Today, the sprawling metropolis is synonymous with the ­pandemic that claimed ...

Five years on from the first UK lockdown, the origin of the virus is still hotly contested. Dr Alina Chan was the scientist who was labelled a conspiracist when she went against the official view it ...

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was ...

The New York Times published a piece acknowledging that the lab leak theory was likely correct. Five years too late.

As we reflect on five years since the tumultuous start of the COVID pandemic (even if we just wish to forget it ever happened ...

As the world marks five years since the devastating arrival of Covid-19, new revelations continue to emerge about the origins of the virus that brought global life to a standstill. While Wuhan ...

A recent CIA assessment has again fuelled the Wuhan lab-leak conspiracy theory. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence – and it simply isn’t there ...

In addition to backing the lab leak theory, BND found indications several safety violations ... SARS-CoV-2 “likely emerged because of a laboratory or research-related accident”. BND reportedly shared ...

FEW of us had heard of the Chinese city of Wuhan when the world was first paralysed by Covid-19 five years ago. Today, the sprawling metropolis is synonymous with the ­pandemic that claimed ...