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US PRESIDENT Joe Biden was accused of “sugar-coating [Donald] Trump’s racist approach” today after renewing the “conspiracy theory” that Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab.
An international scientific investigation concluded that the lab theory, which German intelligence described last year as a “calculated attempt to distract” from the US’s catastrophic Covid record, was incorrect in February, but Mr Biden has now ordered US spooks to investigate it again and report back to him in 90 days.
Scientists and the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported full Chinese co-operation with the investigation into Covid-19’s origins earlier this year.
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