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Beijing has dismissed the recent claim by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that COVID-19 is more likely to have originated from a Chinese laboratory, describing it as “extremely unlikely.” The response comes after the CIA’s assessment on Saturday (January 25) suggested that a lab leak was the more probable cause of the pandemic, rather than […]
Beijing insisted on Tuesday that it had shared information on Covid-19 “without holding anything back”, after the World Health Organization implored China to offer more data and access to understand the disease’s origins. Covid-19 under a microscope. File photo: NIAID. Covid-19, which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2020, went […]