Joe Biden orders probe into virus origin
- Joe Biden told American intelligence agencies to “redouble” their efforts to analyse the origins of COVID-19 & determine whether it emerged from human-animal contact or via a laboratory accident.
- US also stated that it will keep working with like-minded partners around the world to press China to participate in a full, transparent, evidence-based international investigation.
- This announcement significantly adds to the growing pressure on China to be more open about the origins of the SARS-COV-2 virus, an outbreak of which was seen first in early 2020 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which houses the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).