Members of the World Health Organization team sent to Wuhan, China, to piece together the origin story of the coronavirus say the search is now at a "critical juncture" and follow-up studies ...

In the latest development in a dramatic saga about the origins of the novel coronavirus, virologists around the globe have fiercely debunked yet another claim that the virus was man-made. This ...

Science Closes In on Covid’s Origins Four studies—including two from WHO—provide powerful evidence favoring the lab-leak theory. By Richard Muller and Steven Quay Share Resize ...

After a weeks-long visit to China to study the pandemic’s origins, WHO released a report in 2021 concluding that COVID most probably jumped into humans from animals, dismissing the possibility ...

The origins of the COVID pandemic are still unknown. Critics of the World Health Organization's investigation earlier this year, which concluded a lab-leak scenario was "extremely unlikely," said ...

COVID-19 origins unclear, but lab leak theory needs study, WHO says A worker in protective gear walks outside the Wuhan Central Hospital in China in February 2021.

WHO's experts called for numerous studies to be done, including testing wild animals to find which species might host COVID-19. They also said the "cold chain" supply theory should be probed.

They were also upset over how China sought to clamp down on research into the origins of COVID-19. Former U.S. President Donald Trump speculated repeatedly that COVID-19 was started in a Chinese lab.

World leaders attending the Group of Seven summit on Sunday issued a call for a new study into the origins of Covid-19, including in China, after an initial report was deemed lacking because ...

Coronavirus Updates The Coronavirus Crisis WHO launches a new group to study the origins of the coronavirus October 13, 20212:17 PM ET By Scott Neuman ...

The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 probably spread to people through an animal, and probably started spreading among humans no more than a month or two before it was noticed in December of ...