3 days ago · Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 virus make a visit on ...

5 days ago · The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory. Menu. Menu. World. SECTIONS. ... A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

3 days ago · A view of the P4 lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by a World Health Organization team in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. Ng Han Guan / AP

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 , began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and then worldwide in early 2020.

3 days ago · The origins of Covid-19 have remained one of the most debated topics of the 21st century. Now, in a fresh assessment released last week, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), believes that the virus responsible for the coronavirus pandemic was “more likely” leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan than transmitted by animals.

5 days ago · The Wuhan Institute of Virology has faced questions over its previous research into bat coronaviruses and alleged security lapses. The Covid-19 virus was first detected in Wuhan in 2019.

5 days ago · The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a ...

5 days ago · A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan ... Ratcliffe said he believed that intelligence and common sense “dictates that the origins of Covid was a leak at the Wuhan Institute ...

Mar 1, 2023 · More than three years after Covid-19 was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of how the virus first emerged remains a mystery.

Jun 7, 2023 · The two major hypotheses are a natural zoonotic spillover, most likely occurring at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, and a laboratory leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).