Your Evening Briefing: Biden Wants to Know Where Covid Came From
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This aerial view shows the P4 laboratory (at left) on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province.
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U.S. President Joe Biden said he ordered the U.S. intelligence community to “redouble” its effort to determine the origin of the coronavirus, including whether it came from a Chinese lab accident. In India, doctors and nurses are burning out amid the nation’s continuing Covid-19 catastrophe, one in which a New York Times study said the true death toll could be in the millions. The European Union attacked AstraZeneca’s vaccine supply “failure” and demanded an urgent order for millions more doses. And for those who have been infected and recover, Covid immunity may last a year or longer. Here’s the latest on the pandemic. —David E. Rovella
Bloomberg is tracking the progress of coronavirus vaccines while mapping the pandemic globally and across America.