Fact Check: Conspiracy theory falsely accuses pharma company behind Covid outbreak and vaccine

A viral post on social media claims that British pharmaceutical company GSK owns the Wuhan lab in which Covid-19 was created as well as Pfizer, which produced the Covid-19 vaccine.

A Facebook post sniffs a conspiracy as it claims to find a common thread between the financiers of the Chinese laboratory where coronavirus first emerged and the vaccine manufacturer. A long text shared by several Facebook users broadly claims that the Chinese biological laboratory in Wuhan where coronavirus emerged is owned by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The same GSK also owns Pfizer, the pharma company that produces vaccine for the virus. The viral post further hints at the involvement of billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates in the conspiracy.