Five years on from the pandemic, China's Wuhan city in central Hubei province is buzzing with life, a far cry from the quiet streets and crowded hospitals during the world's first Covid-19 lockdown on January 23,

A bombshell new report from the CIA says the agency is now backing the COVID-19 “lab leak” theory - but admits “low confidence” in the finding. The distinction was made in a report released Saturday after being declassified by President Donald Trump. New CIA director John Ratcliffe released the reprot.

The CIA has revised its stance on the origins of Covid-19, stating the virus is 'more likely' to have leaked from a Chinese lab rather than originating from animals.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced that the origin of the coronavirus is unlikely to be animal-based and was likely the result of a lab leak in China. John Ratcliffe, the new head of the CIA, who assumed office on Thursday, has prioritized the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus as a key focus of his tenure.

Built in just days as Covid-19 cases spiked ... China’s central Hubei province on February 2, 2020. Photo: AFP/China Out. The hospital now stands empty, hidden behind more recently built walls — faded like most traces of the pandemic as locals move ...

The residents of Wuhan bitterly remember the more than two-month lockdown they were subjected to five years ago, during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, which China confronted with a strict policy that isolated the country for three years and severely impacted its economy.

Newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News the decision to release a Biden-era analysis favoring the COVID-19 lab leak theory is a step toward transparency.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19​ came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed​, though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.

With Donald Trump now back in the White House, the intelligence agency in the United States has shared the current thinking on the pandemic.

China on Monday dismissed the possibility that the virus that caused COVID-19 leaked from a lab, after the CIA said it now favors the so-called lab leak theory over natural transmission. “It

The CIA has concluded that Covid-19 probably began as a leak from a laboratory in China in a new assessment of the origins of the pandemic that killed millions of people.