Biden to Receive Report on Covid-19 Origins, but Challenges Persist in How to Deal With China


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WASHINGTON—A new assessment by U.S. spy agencies of the origins of Covid-19 scheduled to be delivered Tuesday to the White House is likely to highlight the Biden administration’s difficult challenge to wrest more information from Beijing that would shed light on how the global pandemic began . Administration officials have signaled that the classified review is unlikely to provide a definitive conclusion on whether the coronavirus jumped to humans naturally, or via a lab leak, in part because of the lack of detailed information from China. The review, however, is likely to underscore the importance of inducing China to share...