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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Left: Secretary of State Colin Powell knowingly lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the United Nations Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003 Right: A screenshot of the September 8, 2002 New ...

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 ...