
The US envoy to China has said Beijing needs to be “more honest” about the origins of the Covid-19 virus for the two nations to be able to work together, amidst reports that the pandemic likely started from a laboratory leak in Wuhan.
Speaking at a US Chamber of Commerce event on Monday, US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said the country needs to “be more honest about what happened three years ago in Wuhan with the origin of the Covid-19 crisis”.