President Joe Biden has asked the intelligence community to "redouble" their efforts to get to the bottom of the origins of the coronavirus after new reports raised questions about whether it spread from a Wuhan laboratory in China, NBC News reports.
Biden said the intelligence community has been unable to reach a âdefinitive conclusionâ on the origins of the virus and is conflicted on whether it came from human contact with an infected animal or a laboratory accident, Biden said in a statement.
âAs of today, the U.S. intelligence community has âcoalesced around two likely scenariosâ but has not reached a definitive conclusion on this question,â Biden said in a statement.
The president's comments come after a U.S. intelligence report said three lab workers in Wuhan, China, fell ill in November 2019, before the first coronavirus cases were reported, adding to circumstantial evidence for a hypothesis that the virus could have escaped from a lab in the city.
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