Boris Johnson asserts Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab leak, challenging prior animal-to-human transmission theories.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson considered launching an “aquatic raid” on a warehouse in the Netherlands to retrieve Covid vaccine doses amid a row with Europe, according to an extract from his memoir.

In his memoir, Boris Johnson has revealed that he now believes that the Covid pandemic was the result of a leak from a Chinese laboratory.

Former prime minister Boris Johnson has said he believes the Covid pandemic was caused by a leak from a laboratory in China, and did not originate in unsanitary conditions in a Wuhan market. He joins Donald Trump in dismissing evidence suggesting that the virus was transmitted “zoonotically” from infected animals.