A report has detailed three researchers working at Wuhan virology lab went to hospital with Covid like symptoms, weeks before the first offical case was confirmed.

According to the new U.S. intelligence report, first obtained by the Wall Street Journal, officials now have reason to believe the workers faced “symptoms consistent of COVID-19 and common seasonal illness”

Unnamed officials gave varying accounts of the information with one saying it needed further investigating, but another describing it as “very accurate”

In a statement to the wall street journal China’s foreign ministry says “The U.S. continues to hype the lab leak theory”