<p>Washington: Republican US President Donald Trump's White House launched a Covid-19 website on Friday in which it blamed the origins of the coronavirus on a lab leak in China while criticizing Democratic former President Joe Biden, former top US health official Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization.</p><p>The website was also critical of steps like social distancing, mask mandates and lockdowns.</p><p>Trump began a 12-month process of withdrawing the US- by far the WHO's largest financial backer - from the agency when he took office in January.</p><p>Fauci, Biden and WHO had no immediate comment.</p><p>Soon after taking office, Trump also said that Fauci, who has faced threats since leading the country's Covid-19 response, should hire his own security and ended US security for him.</p>.Trump to fast-track permitting for 10 mining projects across US.<p>A CIA spokesperson said in January that the CIA has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from nature. The CIA had said it had "low confidence" in its assessment and that both scenarios - lab origin and natural origin - remain plausible.</p><p>China's government says it supports and has taken part in research to determine Covid-19's origin, and has accused Washington of politicizing the matter, especially because of efforts by US intelligence agencies to investigate.</p><p>Beijing has said there was no credibility to claims that a laboratory leak likely caused the pandemic.</p>
<p>Washington: Republican US President Donald Trump's White House launched a Covid-19 website on Friday in which it blamed the origins of the coronavirus on a lab leak in China while criticizing Democratic former President Joe Biden, former top US health official Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization.</p><p>The website was also critical of steps like social distancing, mask mandates and lockdowns.</p><p>Trump began a 12-month process of withdrawing the US- by far the WHO's largest financial backer - from the agency when he took office in January.</p><p>Fauci, Biden and WHO had no immediate comment.</p><p>Soon after taking office, Trump also said that Fauci, who has faced threats since leading the country's Covid-19 response, should hire his own security and ended US security for him.</p>.Trump to fast-track permitting for 10 mining projects across US.<p>A CIA spokesperson said in January that the CIA has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from nature. The CIA had said it had "low confidence" in its assessment and that both scenarios - lab origin and natural origin - remain plausible.</p><p>China's government says it supports and has taken part in research to determine Covid-19's origin, and has accused Washington of politicizing the matter, especially because of efforts by US intelligence agencies to investigate.</p><p>Beijing has said there was no credibility to claims that a laboratory leak likely caused the pandemic.</p>