A woman checks into a hotel for quarantine in Wuhan on December 23, 2021. A US Senate bill would sanction Chinese officials who prevent an investigation into the lab-leak theory about Covid-19’s origins. Photo: Bloomberg
Covid-19: US Senate bill would sanction Chinese officials blocking inquiry into coronavirus origins
- 16 Republican sponsors want to investigate whether the virus somehow escaped from an infectious diseases lab
- Bill has no support from Democrats, who have accused Republicans of fuelling anti-Asian racism in the US with coronavirus rhetoric
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Coronavirus pandemic
A woman checks into a hotel for quarantine in Wuhan on December 23, 2021. A US Senate bill would sanction Chinese officials who prevent an investigation into the lab-leak theory about Covid-19’s origins. Photo: Bloomberg
