US backs Covid probe, distances itself from Wuhan lab theory


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US backs Covid probe, distances itself from Wuhan lab theory By AFP The United States distanced itself Tuesday from a theory propagated by former president Donald Trump that Covid-19 came from a Chinese laboratory and voiced support for WHO researchers. A mission to China from the World Health Organization said Tuesday that it has failed to find the source behind the disease that has killed more than 2.3 million people but said the laboratory hypothesis was “extremely unlikely.” The State Department — whose chief under Trump, Mike Pompeo, was a leading proponent of the lab theory — said it was...