The World Health Organisation (WHO) is under fire from scientists over indications that its planned mission to China to investigate the origins of Covid-19 will not visit a secretive laboratory that researches coronaviruses in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak.
Questions about the activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a renowned centre of coronavirus expertise, were raised by an Insight investigation in The Sunday Times last week.
It revealed that a potentially deadly coronavirus that is the world’s closest known relative to Covid-19 was analysed by scientists from the institute after traces of it were found in an abandoned copper mine in 2013 in southern China. The alarm was raised after six workers called in to clear bat faeces from the
