Guards in hazmat gear were seen pointing machine guns at frightened families as they locked down the Xishuangbanna airport inYunnan, China.
The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals, has sensationally claimed Covid may have leaked out of a US lab. Professor David Robertson, director of the University of Glasgow's Centre for Virus Research, said while there were still answers needed on Covid's there was zero basis for US involvement. Professor Sachs said he stood by his previous comments and he personally oversaw the part of the paper dealing with the emergence of Covid. China itself has faced several accusations of covering up the origins of Covid. Researchers who fell ill with a mysterious flu-like virus months before the official Covid timeline were reportedly silenced or disappeared. A disinformation campaign launched by the Chinese Government last year claimed Covid originated from an American military base in Maryland. In June, UK Government sources claimed the head of the World Health Organisation privately believed Covid started following a leak in China.