The Donald Trump administration of the United States has ordered the closure of a biological research laboratory that China ...

The study lands at a fraught political moment. The White House recently asserted that the pandemic had been caused by an accident in a Wuhan, China, lab.

The COVID-19 virus traveled a similar amount of distance in about the same amount of time as the 2002 SARS virus.

At the start of the Covid pandemic, people worried the distance between Wuhan and the bat virus reservoir was too vast for a natural origin. 'This paper shows that it isn't unusual.' The UC San ...

The Chinese accusations come after the White House revamped its COVID-19 information earlier this month to push out the ...

while noting that Wuhan, China, where the first coronavirus case was found, is also home to China's "foremost SARs research lab" and that "if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have ...

Here is everything we currently know about the origins of the Covid-19 virus, after China claimed that the US was responsible ...

SARS-CoV-2 is just one strain of a group of respiratory viruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that are mainly hosted by horseshoe bats. This group also includes the viral strain responsible for the 2002 ...

if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced." The report noted that Wuhan Institute of Virology was China's top coronavirus research lab and it had "a history of ...

The ancestor of the virus that causes COVID-19 left its point of origin in Western China or Northern Laos just several years ...

“At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a concern that the distance between Wuhan and the bat virus reservoir was too extreme for a zoonotic origin,” Wertheim said. “This paper ...

LONDON--Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short ... suspect infected animals were first brought to the Wuhan market in late November 2019, which then triggered ...