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The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger

The lab leak theory just got even stronger

20 November 2021

9:00 AM

20 November 2021

9:00 AM

Two years in, there is no doubt the Covid pandemic began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. But there is also little doubt that the bat carrying the progenitor of the virus lived somewhere else.

Central to the mystery of Covid’s origin is how a virus normally found in horseshoe bats in caves in the far south of China or south-east Asia turned up in a city a thousand miles north.

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