Getty Images More than three years after Covid-19 was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the question of how the virus first emerged remains a mystery. But on 28 February 2023 the controversial claim that the pandemic might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory – once dismissed by many as a fringe conspiracy theory
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Reuters By Christy Cooney & Becky Morton BBC News Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has disputed claims he rejected expert advice on Covid tests for people going into care homes at the start of the pandemic. WhatsApp messages leaked to the Daily Telegraph newspaper suggest Mr Hancock was told in April 2020 there should be
Reuters By Nduka Orjinmo BBC News, Abuja Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election. The 70-year-old veteran politician got 37% of the vote, official results show. His main rival Atiku Abubakar polled 29%, and Labour’s Peter Obi 25%. Their parties had earlier dismissed the poll as a
Getty Images By Max Matza & Nicholas Yong in Washington and Singapore FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that the bureau believes Covid-19 “most likely” originated in a “Chinese government-controlled lab”. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident,” he told
Rescuers have been working through the night to search for survivors after a train crash near the city of Larissa, in northern Greece. At least 32 people are known to have died, with dozens more injured after two trains collided. More on this story:Survivors describe ‘nightmarish seconds’ as trains crashed
Reuters By Alys Davies BBC News Two trains have collided in northern Greece with the loss of at least 26 lives and dozens of people injured, emergency services say. Rescuers have been working to save passengers and extinguish a fire caused by the crash near the city of Larissa on Tuesday evening. A train said