Earlier this month researchers from the now famous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) said they had found a new virus with striking similarities to Covid in bats. Called HKU5-CoV-2 it already shows ...

Scientists in Wuhan have warned of a new strain of Covid discovered in bats, which could have a far higher mortality rate than the virus that plunged the world into lockdown five years ago.

Earlier this month, China said its bio-lab in Wuhan which faced allegations leaking the COVD-19 causing the global pandemic has never engaged in 'gain-of-function studies' on coronavirus amid ...

Another coronavirus feared to be powerful enough to spread through humans has been discovered in China. In scenes eerily ... researchers at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology detected ...

Article continues below The sprawling metropolis of Wuhan is where the virus, that claimed 227,000 lives in the UK, first originated. Located in the centre of China, Wuhan was little heard of ...

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Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China.