Covid china wuhan lab leak theory
Idea that the virus escaped from Chinese city used to be widely dismissed, but is now becoming ever more plausible
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Idea that the virus escaped from Chinese city used to be widely dismissed, but is now becoming ever more plausible
Former President Donald Trump has maintained that China must be held accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, demanding $50 trillion in reparations over the alleged virus leak from a lab in Wuhan.
British and American researchers have scored each country with a high security pathogen lab and found several, including China, ranked poorly for rules on manipulating viruses like Covid.
Sir John Bell, who served as Boris Johnson's testing tsar, admitted it was 'quite possible' that the virus leaked out of the infamous site in Wuhan, the city where Covid first emerged three years ago.
EXCLUSIVE: Critics of the research, carried out by Imperial College London, called it 'insanity' and warned the lab trials could, in theory, unleash a new viral threat.