Shi Zhengli — known as “bat woman” — published a report saying that her team had identified eight coronavirus strains collected from bats at a remote mine in China in 2015President Biden threw open the possibility that the pandemic began after a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, saying that was one of two scenarios being assessed by US intelligence. In a statement last night, Biden said that three US intelligence analyses regarded the cause of the outbreak to be either human contact with an infected animal or a “laboratory accident”. SponsoredHe added: “Here is their current position . ‘While two elements in the [intelligence community] leans toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter — each with low or moderate confidence — the majority of elements do not believe there is sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the other’.”Biden asked intelligence agencies to redouble

Source: The Times May 26, 2021 11:03 UTC