China's UN envoy calls on WHO to probe US labs as the source of the coronavirus and Covid-19

A joint WHO-Chinese team had found that it was unlikely that Covid-19 had leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. - Reuters

BEIJING (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): China's envoy to the United Nations Chen Xu has called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to probe US laboratories for the source of the coronavirus, as Beijing hit back against claims that Covid-19 emerged from a Chinese lab.

Chen's letter to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday (Aug 24) coincided with United States intelligence agencies presenting President Joe Biden with a report on the origins of the pandemic.