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

China has rejected a U.S. intelligence assessment suggesting the coronavirus that turned into the COVID-19 pandemic likely originated from a lab, rather than nature. The CIA, while emphasizing "low confidence" in its findings,

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