Chinese embassy in US says politicising Covid-19 origins hampers investigations, East Asia News & Top Stories


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SHANGHAI (REUTERS) - China's embassy in the United States said on Thursday (May 27) that politicising the origins of Covid-19 would hamper investigations, after US President Joe Biden said the US intelligence community is divided over where the virus emerged. As the World Health Organisation prepares to begin a second phase of investigations into the origins of Covid-19, China has been under pressure to give international investigators more access, amid several recent reports suggesting that it leaked from a laboratory specialising in coronavirus research in the city of Wuhan. China has repeatedly denied that the lab was responsible, saying that...