coronavirus.U.S. intelligence agencies are examining reports that researchers at a Chinese virology laboratory were seriously ill in 2019 a month before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, according to U.S.
government sources who cautioned on Monday that there is still no proof the disease originated at the lab.“Phase 2 of the COVID origins study must be launched with terms of reference that are transparent, science-based, and give international experts the independence to fully assess the source of the virus and the early days of the outbreak,” U.S.
health secretary Xavier Becerra said in a video message to the annual ministerial meeting of the World Health Organization.Becerra did not mention China directly, where the first known.