Africa

The debate about the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic has become toxic. There is still no consensus as to whether this new disease resulted from the passing of a bat coronavirus naturally to humans or was the result of a lab leak, whether of a natural or engineered bat coronavirus. For the moment there is not enough

Controversial genetic research which is suspected to have created the Covid virus should be banned under the equivalent of nuclear test treaties, a leading Tory MP has demanded. Tom Tugendhat, the chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke out amid growing concern in the international scientific community about ‘Gain of Function’ experiments, which aim