Two American virologists with former ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) argue that the lab’s recent research poses ...

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 ...

China denies German media reports of an assessment carried out by spying agency BND in 2020 supporting the theory.

The French National Academy of Medicine has now come out officially to back the theory that COVID-19 was likely caused by a ...

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 ...

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

A column published in The New York Times claimed the public was "badly misled" about the origins of COVID, even after its own ...

Although the academy does not offer a definitive explanation for the origin of Covid-19, its report adds to the mounting ...

Beijing has said there was no credibility to claims that a laboratory leak likely caused the pandemic ... and that it was not involved in the creation or leakage of the COVID-19 virus. Indian ...

Public health leaders looked to UNC-Chapel Hill virologist Ralph Baric to end the pandemic. Their critics blamed it on him.

The origin of COVID-19 is still unknown, though the leading theory among researchers is that it spread from an animal host to humans. The lab leak theory continues to get attention, as the CIA ...

There are two theories: market (or zoonosis) and lab leak. In my mind, neither theory is proven. The bar for proof in science is high, and both theories only have circumstantial evidence in their ...