One of the most important players in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic put the spotlight again on the possibility the crisis may have originated from an unwanted lab leak. Professor George Gao, who served as Director of the Chinese Center for
The World Health Organization says it has fired the scientist who led a high-profile delegation from the U.N. health agency to China two years ago to jointly look into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, citing sexual misconduct. Peter Ben Embarek, who
The U.S. State Department called on China to be more transparent about the current COVID-19 outbreak and origins of the virus, hitting back at a Chinese official who called travel restrictions “unacceptable” on Tuesday. “If the [People’s Republic of China] wants to