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White House announces US intelligence will intensify efforts to study Covid’s origins

Guardian, 27 May 2021
Joe Biden has ordered the US intelligence community to “redouble” its efforts studying the origins of coronavirus, adding that it will continue to press for China to participate in a full investigation. Deputy White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed the investigation will include any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese lab. "China wasn't transparent enough," she said. "We have been saying that for a very long time, that China needed to provide more access to the lab, cooperate more fully with the scientific investigators"

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