Commentary: What’s really behind fresh calls for investigations into COVID-19 origins

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Investigations into the origins of COVID-19 are not just about scientific interest, but part of the competition for influence between the US and ...

In a statement on Wednesday , Biden ordered a 90-day period for the intelligence community toMore specifically, he ordered them to determine if the virus had “emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident”.

US intelligence agencies have also reportedly discovered that three researchers at the institute fell seriously ill with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019, weeks before the first identified case of the virus. But the theory was given further impetus on Sunday, when British intelligence agencies briefed UK newspapers and claimed the lab leak theory was “plausible” and “feasible”.

Are COVID-19 vaccines still effective against new variants? And could these increase the risk of reinfection? Experts explain why COVID-19 could become a “chronic problem" on CNA's Heart of the Matter podcast.Why are the US and its allies raising the lab leak theory so prominently now? The current interest is framed by Western states as an attempt to finally get to the bottom of the mystery behind the origin of COVID-19.

Chinese media similarly suggested in November 2020 that the discovery of COVID-19 on the surface of frozen food imports could suggest China was not the source of the virus. A medical worker prepares a syringe with a dose of China's Sinovac coronavirus disease vaccine at the Central Vaccination Center, inside the Bang Sue Grand Station, in Bangkok, Thailand on May 24, 2021.

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