Biden demands to know Covid-19 origins within 90 days Biden s order signals an escalation in mounting controversy over how the virus first emerged - through animal contact or through release from a research laboratory in China. US President Joe Biden. Picture: Nicholas Kamm/AFP
President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the Covid-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident
Agencies should “redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
The US and other countries have called for a more in-depth probe into the pandemic's origins, after a report by an international team sent by the World Health Organization to China proved inconclusive.
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