A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organisation investigative team arrived in Wuhan early this year. Photo / APA security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organisation investigative team arrived in Wuhan early this year. The president also called on China to cooperate with international probes into the origins of the pandemic. Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, have promoted the theory that the virus emerged from a laboratory accident rather than naturally through human contact with an infected animal in Wuhan, China. US President Joe Biden has ordered a new intelligence investigation into the origins of Covid-19.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 26, 2021 22:30 UTC