President Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office, surrounded by top health officials, vowing a crackdown on “dangerous gain-of-function research” on viruses and pathogens that ...

The National Institutes of Health is in the process of suspending funding for 40 experiments because of fears that the research might be dangerous, according to a draft memo.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course ...

The minority members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee say the White House is undercutting American soft power and ...

The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery as WHO says “Cannot rule out any theory” after an inconclusive study. Many theories about the origins of COVID-19 have been debated extensively since the ...

WHO director Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says all hypotheses are on the table, as the organisation works to reinforce future pandemic defences.

President Trump’s executive order suspending federal funding for gain-of-function research not only contains questionable assertions, but it also frames the targeted research so broadly that it is ...

The virus killed at least 20 million people, wiped at least $10 trillion from the global economy and upended billions of lives.

WHO: Lab leak cannot be ruled out as Covid source New report warns critical data on Wuhan’s virus research still being withheld This feature is available for registered users.

WHO’s Tedros says ‘all hypotheses must remain on the table’ after critical information not provided to investigators.

A group of experts investigating Covid origins on behalf of the World Health Organization revealed they still aren't sure how the pandemic began and have sided with China's theories.