In March, he said, his adviser instructed the intelligence community to prepare a report on the origins of COVID-19, including whether it came from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.
“To date, the US intelligence community has rallied around two plausible scenarios, but has not come to a final conclusion on this issue,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
As the American leader stressed, he asked the US intelligence to redouble efforts to collect and analyze information and inform him of the results within 90 days.
Earlier, the Chinese Foreign Ministry denied reports of a serious illness in November 2019 by three employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.