The truth on Covid at last?

Dear Reader,

Five years to the week after Germany decided to bring in its first Covid lockdowns, a piece of investigative journalism has been published that could shed some light on the source of the virus that caused millions of deaths and restricted our lives for years.

Published by the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Wednesday, the investigation found that Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), concluded very early on in the pandemic that the virus leaked from a research facility in Wuhan.

However, for reasons that aren’t totally clear, successive German governments refused for years to let the BND share its findings with the outside world.

At the beginning of 2020, just weeks after the world had learned that a new virus was spreading through the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the BND started to look into where the pathogen had come from. The agency’s spies soon managed to get their hands on a raft of unpublished data and research from within the Wuhan Institu…