China urged the US to “stop politicising and instrumentalising the issue of origin-tracing”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Several studies have said the virus originated naturally — but U.S. intelligence changed its assessment over the weekend.

The Central Intelligence Agency with a "low confidence" has changed its stance and concluded that it's likely the COVI-19 virus was leaked from a Chinese lab before it became a global pandemic five years ago.