US orders Covid origin probe as lab leak theory debated
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Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit in February by the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease in February. Photo: Reuters
US President Joe Biden has ordered aides to determine the origin of the virus that causes Covid-19, saying that intelligence agencies are pursuing rival theories, including the possibility of a laboratory accident in China.