The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery as WHO says “Cannot rule out any theory” after an inconclusive study. Many theories ...

A lack of transparency from Chinese officials and looming geopolitical consequences have damaged the credibility of a WHO-led inquiry into how the virus that causes COVID-19 originated. Lesley ...

Scientists conducting research on novel coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were the first humans to contract COVID-19, according to a new report. “Patients zero” included Ben Hu ...

WHO investigators continue search into coronavirus origins in Wuhan, China 02:18. Beijing — With just days left in their month-long visit to Wuhan, the World Health Organization's team of COVID ...

Peter Daszak, Thea Fischer, and other members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan ...

According to a new report, three Wuhan lab employees became sick in November 2019. ... COVID-19 is caused by a virus called SARS-CoV-2, which belongs to the coronavirus family of viruses.

Two new studies say the virus was present in animals at the Huanan seafood market in 2019. ... The W.H.O. experts had identified 164 cases of Covid-19 in Wuhan over the course of December 2019.

The virus responsible for COVID-19 has distinctive features that separate it from its predecessors by many, many generations, according to their report in the Journal of Virology.

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese lab accused of leaking COVID-19, discovered a new coronavirus in bats that closely matches the one that led to the deadly worldwide ...

Humans, Not Animals, Likely Took the COVID Virus to Wuhan, Contrary to China's Claims. Published Mar 25, 2021 at 9:29 PM EDT Updated Mar 26, 2021 at 12:23 PM EDT. By .

WUHAN, China — Benjamin Wilson, a Louisiana native who lives in the Chinese city where the Covid-19 virus was first identified a year ago, is watching the unfolding crisis back home with ...

The death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus has risen to 17, as dozens more cases were reported across China and as far afield as the western United States, sparking fears of a possible pandemic.