Washington: US President Joe Biden issued orders to US Intelligence to enquire on the Covid – 19 viruses first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident. He asked the US Intelligence to submit the report on this issue within three months to him.

According to the White House press release Joe Biden said that agencies should redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion. Agencies are currently split over the two possible sources for the Covid – 19 virus that swept the planet over the past year, killing more than 3.4 million people, a figure experts say is undoubtedly an underestimate, Biden said in a statement.

Biden’s order signals an escalation in mounting controversy over how the virus first emerged through animal contact at a market in Wuhan, China, or through release of the Covid – 19 from a highly secure research laboratory in the same city.