Chinese embassy in US says politicising Covid-19 origins hampers investigations

Politicising the origins of Covid-19 would hamper further investigations and undermine global efforts to curb the pandemic, China's US embassy said after President Joe Biden ordered a review of intelligence about where the virus emerged.

The embassy in Washington said in a statement on its website on Wednesday evening "some political forces have been fixated on political manipulation and (the) blame game".

As the World Health Organization (WHO) prepares to begin a second phase of studies into the origins of Covid-19, China has been under pressure to give investigators more access amid allegations that SARS-CoV-2 leaked...