A CHINESE virologist who fled to the US after alleging China covered up the Covid outbreak has insisted the virus is an "unrestricted bioweapon" that leaked from a Wuhan lab. Whistleblower Dr Li Meng-Yan even claims that a trove of Dr Anthony Fauci's emails proves her allegations and that he was among scientists who knew about it but tried to hide it.

More than 3,000 people in China have contracted the bacterial disease known as Malta fever following a leak from a lab last year, health officials said. The outbreak originating from the Zhongmu Lanzhou biological pharmaceutical factory left 3,245 people sickened with brucellosis, the Health Commission of Lanzhou said, according to a CNN report.