https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11778417/coronavirus-chinese-lab-mi6-boss/
The Coronavirus pandemic "started as an accident" when the engineered virus escaped from a Chinese lab, a former MI6 chief has said.
Sir Richard Dearlove says he's seen an "important" new report which claims the virus didn't emerge naturally.
Instead, it was created by Chinese scientists, Sir Richard told The Telegraph.
And he claimed the report could force China to pay 'reparations' to the rest of the world for the death toll and economic hardship wrought by the virus.
Sir Richard says a scientific paper published this week by a Norwegian-British research team suggests key elements of Covid-19's genetic sequences were "inserted" and may not have evolved naturally.
"It raises the issue, if China ever were to admit responsibility, does it pay reparations?
"I think it will make every country in the world rethink how it treats its relationship with China."
Sir Richard, who was the head of MI6 between 1999 and 2004, said he's read peer-reviewed research produced by top academics at St George's Hospital at the University of London and Norwegian virologists.
The paper claims that there are 'inserted sections' in the DNA of the virus, and warns that current efforts to develop are vaccine are doomed - because the virus has been misunderstood.
The paper has been rewritten several times, and an earlier version apparently claimed coronavirus could correctly be called the "Wuhan virus".
The earlier version, seen by The Telegraph, claimed to have proven "beyond all reasonable doubt that the Covid-19 virus is engineered."
One of the authors, John Fredrik Moxnes, asked for his name to be withdrawn from the research, throwing its credibility into doubt.
London academics have also dismissed its conclusions, it is understood.
But the remaining authors claims the virus has "unique fingerprints" that cannot have evolved naturally.
The paper has not yet been accepted for publication in any scientific journal.