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Turning heads as they cruise past office buildings and malls, driverless taxis are slowly spreading through Chinese cities, prompting both wariness and wonder.

China's tech companies and automakers have poured billions of dollars into self-driving technology in recent years in an effort to catch industry leaders in the United States.

US President Joe Biden has signed a bill requiring the declassification of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, AFP reported.

"We need to get to the bottom of the origins of Covid-19... including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology," Biden said in a statement.

As it turned out, those emails date back to 2020, and eight weeks later, Fauci stood next to US President Donald Trump at a White House press conference and cited the document as proof that the theory of the virus leaking from a laboratory in Wuhan was implausible.

The British media outlet revealed the team had made a hybrid virus — combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain

The first passenger plane from the Chinese province of Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 6 million worldwide, has landed in Istanbul after a two-and-a-half-year halt due to COVID-19.

China Southern Airlines' airliner with flight number CZ8021 arrived in Istanbul Airport at 9.30 p.m. on June 29.

The documents contradict Fauci’sclaim that no gain of function research was funded by the US at the Lab in Wuhan

China on Aug. 13 rejected the World Health Organization's calls for a renewed probe into the origins of COVID-19, saying it supported "scientific" over "political" efforts to find out how the virus started.

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In July, the WHO offered to carry out a second phase of research in China, including a laboratory and market test in Wuhan.

"We will not accept such an origin research plan, because in some respects it does not take into account common sense and is contrary to science," Zen Jensin, deputy minister of the National Health Commission, told reporters.

The ex-US Secretary of State said that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was engaged in military development, and in the fall of 2019, several doctors had been ill with a serious illness.

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there is ample evidence of a coronavirus leak from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. He stated this on the air Fox News.

China hit out at the "dark history" of the U.S. intelligence community on May 27, after President Joe Biden ordered a probe into the COVID-19 origins which threatens to set the course for relations between world's top economies.