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Tracing Covid-19's origin: Five ways US is pressing China to solve mystery

In the past few weeks, the United States has pressed China on tracing the origin of the virus.

Chinese officials have disputed the Wuhan lab theory. (Photo: Bloomberg)
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Chinese officials have disputed the Wuhan lab theory. (Photo: Bloomberg)

BS Web Team New Delhi
Two leading disease experts in the US have said the world needs the cooperation of the Chinese government to trace the origins of Covid-19 and prevent future pandemic threats.

China hasn’t provided evidence to disprove the theory that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, may have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, said one of the experts on Sunday.
 
In the past few weeks, the United States has pressed China on tracing the origin of the virus. Here are five instances of how it is doing so.

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