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In a report, an international team of investigators from the World Health Organization who visited the central Chinese city in January and February has called for looking into whether blood bank samples collected during the initial period of the outbreak contain antibodies to the virus.
While denying the possibility that the virus was developed as a biological weapon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a report, "All agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal and a laboratory-associated incident."
The World Health Organization on Friday said a second stage of the international probe should include audits of Chinese labs, amid increasing pressure from the United States for an investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and ahead of a weekend visit to China by US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.
The remarks by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian came after Biden said Wednesday that he had asked the intelligence community to "redouble" its efforts to investigate the virus's origins and report back to him in 90 days.
Agencies should "redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days," Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
