Washington correspondent
The trail of the accidental origin of the Covid-19 pandemic has ended up being taken seriously by the new US Administration.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden ordered his intelligence agencies to "
redouble
" their efforts in their investigation into the beginnings of the epidemic, including the hypothesis of an accident at a Chinese laboratory.
He asked for a report to be submitted to him within three months, and for US laboratories to assist in the investigation.
On whether the virus had an animal origin or came from a laboratory, Biden explained that the American intelligence services have agreed on the existence of "
two probable scenarios, without reaching a definitive conclusion".
“Currently, two agencies are leaning for the first scenario and another for the second, each with low or moderate confidence;
the majority do not think there is enough information to rate one as more likely than
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