A CHINESE spymaster is rumoured to have defected to the West to offer up secrets about the origins of Covid and the Wuhan lab.

Dong Jingwei, vice minister of state security, is reported to have fled the Communist country by jetting from Hong Kong to the US along with his daughter, Dong Yang. 

It has been reported that Dong may have handed over evidence on the Wuhan lab leak theory which prompted President Joe Biden's U-turn as he ordered the US to "redouble" its investigation.

The theory had originally been dismissed by many as a "conspiracy" and an attempted by Donald Trump's administration to save face over its handling of the pandemic.