Bombshell leaked security documents claim that China deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence about the coronavirus outbreak and hampered efforts to develop a vaccine.
The report - produced by the Five Eyes security alliance -accuses China of silencing doctors who spoke out, blocking news reports about the disease and denying it could spread between humans for weeks, despite knowing this was untrue.
This caused the “endangerment of other countries”, and sets out the case against the Chinese government, according to reports in Australia.
The 15-page dossier, by intelligence bosses from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, was leaked to the Saturday Telegraph, raising grave concerns about research into deadly pathogens at