A HarperCollins book out later this month from an award-winning Australian journalist claims the US funded the Wuhan, China lab suspected of being the source of the Covid-19 pandemic. The lab was ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I'm sure that I did nothing wrong," she told The New York Times. "So I have nothing to fear." See more stories on Insider's business page. In a rare interview with The New York Times, Wuhan ...

A new coronavirus has been discovered in bats which could have a higher chance of infecting humans than other coronaviruses.

Chinese researchers have found a new bat coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, which has the potential to infect humans as it uses the same cell-surface protein to infiltrate cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading coronavirus scientist from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, dismissed conspiracy theories that her institute had leaked the COVID-19 virus, in an interview with the journal ...