The Chinese scientist who ran controversial experiments at the laboratory suspected of triggering Covid held a secret meeting with the US government to seek backing for a project that would go on to ...

After years of rumours that the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a laboratory in China, the virologist at the centre of the claims has presented data on dozens of new coronaviruses collected ...

To read part two, click here. On December 5, 2024, at the final meeting of the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Republican and Democratic members voted unanimously to pass the final ...

New COVID virus found: Wuhan Institute of Virology's research team led by China's virologist Shi Zhengli, famous as ‘Batwoman’, has detected new coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, in bats. The new virus has the ...

The top Chinese official who led Beijing’s COVID-19 response admits he can’t rule out that the deadly virus leaked from a lab. “You can always suspect anything. That’s science,” Dr. George Fu Gao, who ...

The Department of Justice secretly launched a grand jury investigation into a US nonprofit that steered American taxpayer funding to the Chinese lab suspected of leaking the COVID-19 virus and causing ...

The first three people to contract COVID-19 were scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), claims a new report—a finding that could confirm the lab leak theory of COVID-19's origins ...

In January, Shi Zhengli led one of the first scientific teams that isolated SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that went on to ravage the world. The virus was new to science, but Shi could see where it had ...

A distinct coronavirus lineage was found in bats in Hong Kong. HKU5-CoV-2 carries a risk of animal-to-human transmission and binds to humans like the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers published ...

Scientists from China have found a new bat coronavirus—HKU5-CoV-2—that can infect humans in extremely high numbers, raising concerns about another potential pandemic like COVID-19, which killed ...

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology spent more than 10 years researching SARS-like viruses to understand how they infect humans. Security personnel at the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of ...