Nineteen months after coronavirus began stalking the globe to claim at least 3.5 million human lives, the world has no clue to the origin of this devastating pathogen.

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A day after President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence to probe the origins of coronavirus, President Xi Jinping's regime said the US was attempting to make a "scapegoat" out of China.

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that the novel coronavirus may have been created to wage "biological warfare" in a veiled reference to China.

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India on Thursday said it shares the need for a comprehensive and expert-led mechanism to expeditiously investigate the origin of the coronavirus, days after the World Health Organization (WHO) came out with a report on it.

India for comprehensive, expert-led mechanism to investigate origin of Covid-19

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday that China is "open, transparent and cooperative" on the novel coronavirus and will continue to work with the World Health Organization (WHO) to find the origins of the virus.

China 'open, transparent' on Covid-19, will work with WHO to find origins: Premier Li Keqiang

British Covid experts have warned that the new coronavirus variant first identified in the country last month could be significantly more lethal as well as more contagious, raising the stakes in the global vaccination race.

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WHO officials have been investigation the origins of the virus in China even as the relatives of the victims have been demanding a meeting with the team, however, China once again has been trying to silence them.

Relatives of Wuhan virus victims demand meeting with WHO officials

China has been making it harder for the world to solve the mystery around the origins of the Wuhan virus. At a time when the WHO team is conducting an investigation in Wuhan, China has escalated its misinformation campaign.

Now, China makes absurd claims on coronavirus origin

In August, there were pool parties happening in Wuhan in China, the epicentre of coronavirus pandemic. The images went viral as thousands of people partied at a water park in Wuhan.

The world focuses on coronavirus, China busy with cover-up