By Patrick Goodenough | July 29, 2021 | 4:18am EDT A security guard stands near the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, a facility at the center of controversy over the theory that the coronarivus may have leaked accidentally from a lab. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) – The politically-charged dispute over the origins of COVID-19 spilled over at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, with the U.S. accusing China trying to “undermine” the investigation and Beijing’s envoy retorting that the U.S. was smearing China in a bid to deflect attention from “its botched response to the pandemic.”