After a few dogged journalists, a small nonprofit pursuing Freedom of Information requests and an independent group of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists might then start sampling bats in the area ... from the Huanan seafood market, the day after Wuhan municipal authorities first raised the alarm about an unknown respiratory virus.

A new coronavirus in bats, similar to that of the virus responsible for Covid-19, has been discovered by researchers at the ...

Most of the patients had a recent history of exposure to wildlife animals at the Huanan Market, where poultry, snakes, bats and other farm animals were sold. Wuhan health officials claimed the wet ...

The Wuhan Institute of Virology is once again in the spotlight after publishing a study describing the discovery of a new strain of coronavirus found in bats, named HKU5-CoV-2. What’s ...