Coronavirus conspiracy theories were “inevitable”, Britain's former security chief admitted tonight, as he warned of rogue states and terror groups trying to “develop and deploy” biological weapons.
Lord Sedwill highlighted debunked claims the disease was manmade and accidentally escaped from a research lab. Comparing the 2018 novichok attack on a former Russian double agent in Wiltshire with the Covid-19 pandemic, he said: “You might think a naturally-occurring public health crisis of this scale doesn't really have much in common with Salisbury or the other threats – and it is clear Covid-19 was a natural disaster, we are absolutely clear about that. “But it did lead to the biggest public health emergency this century and the biggest
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