Researchers working in a Wuhan lab were trying to create a strain of the world's most deadly coronaviruses in the weeks before the pandemic started in a bid to create bioweapons, an investigation claims.
A trove of intercepted communications, the full details of which have been kept top-secret, has revealed that scientists in China were allegedly experimenting with deadly viruses, which ended up being leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, reports the Sunday Times.
US investigators say that it's taken so long to identify the chain of events because the project itself was a covert operation and suspected of having been commissioned by the Chinese military.
