As the coronavirus continues to claim lives across the globe, theories still abound on its true origins. The first confirmed Covid-19 cases were reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December.
Since then, its communist government has been dogged with accusations that it covered up the true extent of the outbreak and failed to properly warn the rest of the world.
Chinese officials have lashed out at the country’s critics and even put forward their own theories distancing themselves from the crisis.
Here, Daily Star Online examines some of the prominent claims and some of the more bizarre conspiracies surrounding the real epicentre of the disease's outbreak. The Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was shut down in January after a