A researcher from the Wuhan Institute of Virology revealed in an interview that the coronavirus was engineered by China as a 'bioweapon' to purposely infect people.
The study finds that while Covid-19 was in the market, no animal samples were found to be infected, and the chain of transmission is not certainly known.
Risky gain of function (GoF) viral research and biosafety concerns at research institutions are under spotlight as two US agencies say they believe in laboratory-origin of Covid-19.
US intelligence agencies still could not rule out the possibility that the Covid-19 virus came from a laboratory, however, and had not been able to discover the origins of the pandemic.
While they suspected possible engineering of Covid-19 virus privately and were worried by ‘pre-adapted’ nature of the virus, some of the world’s top experts dismissed such questions publicly. Now their role is under...
Globally, there have been more than 760,360,900 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including over 6,873,400 deaths, according to the World Health Organisation
Top scientists and at least two US intelligence agencies have indicated that Covid-19 may have originated in a lab instead of originating in nature as was widely said in the beginning.
The virus emerging in China made it much more difficult to ask if it had come from a lab accident and an individual raising such a question would get accused of being a racist, unqualified, a conspiracy theorist, or an...
While warning of 'counter measures', on Tuesday, Beijing called entry restrictions targetting its travelers unreasonable
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said recently that the WHO needs more information on the severity of the outbreak in China.
More than three years after Covid-19 emerged, there is no conclusive evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic originated naturally or in a laboratory. However, the...
The Union government on Tuesday urged states and Union territories (UTs) to increase the genome sequencing of positive samples to keep track of emerging...
An Indian parliamentary panel has said the origin of Covid-19 should be identified and culprits behind it should be penalised internationally.
Is Covid-19 of simple 'natural' origin, transmitted to humans from an animal reservoir, or did it start life as an 'enhanced' virus? The CIA and European...
Earlier, there was a debate over the naming of virus that causes Covid-19, with many calling it Wuhan/China Wirus as it originiated in China's Wuhan.
The lab-origin of Covid-19 was widely called a conspiracy theory for most of 2020, but it's now accepted as a valid possibility.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian also rejected accusations that the country had not fully cooperated with investigators, saying it welcomed...
WHO experts noted that since lab accidents in the past have triggered some outbreaks, the Covid-19 lab leak theory could not be discounted.
“Zero tolerance" requires quarantines and lockdowns on entire communities and sometimes even cities when as few as a handful of cases have been detected.
The first study used spatial analysis to show that the earliest known COVID-19 cases, diagnosed in December 2019, were centered on the Wuhan market.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there had been a “premature push” to rule out the theory that the virus might have escaped from a Chinese government lab in...
The medico had tested positive the first time on January 30 last year, when she returned to the country from Wuhan University, where she was pursuing...
The same team of scientists who published these articles, had last year dismissed the lab leak idea as a conspiracy theory in a report also published in The...
