Recent reports indicate that U.S. intelligence agencies, including the FBI, suppressed key findings suggesting COVID-19 originated from a l...

The "lab leak" theory about the origin of COVID-19 is a complicated story of magical thinking and blame, that medieval history tells us has...

" Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the international experts have considered the theory that the pandemic might have leaked from...

Most scientists believe it emerged in the wild and jumped from bats to humans, either directly or through another animal. Others theorise i...

Last month, Worobey published a COVID-19 timeline linking the first known human case to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China...

Now, with the global COVID-19 death toll surpassing 5.2 million on the second anniversary of the earliest human cases, a growing chorus of ...

According to an unclassified summary, four members of the U.S. intelligence community say with low confidence that the virus was initially ...

The WHO this month proposed a second phase of studies into the origins of the coronavirus in China, including audits of laboratories and ma...

Tang Kaihong, a local representative of China's National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets, discussed the national securit...

There are apparently intelligence reports of several lab workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology getting sick in November 2019. If true,...

Virus researchers have not publicly identified any key new scientific evidence that might make the lab-leak hypothesis more likely.

So far, none of these hypotheses have shown the origins of the virus. One of the first scenarios put forward that the Wuhan seafood market ...

Countless labs handle dangerous pathogens, not always vigilantly, multiplying the chances of leaks by accident or design

Under the new Biosecurity Law, China will continue to build and approve more labs specialising in advanced pathogenic microbiology with a s...

WHO chief Teodros Ghebreyesus on Tuesday reopened the lab leak theory, as he raised concerns about the level of access China provided to th...

"As far as WHO is concerned, all hypotheses remain on the table. This report is a very important beginning, but it is not the end. We have ...

The report's release has been repeatedly delayed, raising questions about whether the Chinese side was trying to skew the conclusions to pr...