More countries join US call for answers on COVID-19 origins

A medic working inside a makeshift hospital in Wuhan, China, checks the temperature of a patient in April, 2020.

A medic working inside a makeshift hospital in Wuhan, China, checks the temperature of a patient in April, 2020. Source: Getty

The Chinese government has hit back after United States President Joe Biden ordered the country's intelligence agencies to redouble their efforts to determine the origin of the coronavirus.


It's accused the U-S of "political manipulation and blame shifting" in lending weight to the possibility that the virus emerged from a laboratory accident in Wuhan.


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