WASHINGTON: The White House on Friday unveiled a revamped Covid-19 website that promoted the contentious theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory, framing it as the pandemic`s `true origins.

The Covid.gov website, previously focused on promoting vaccine and testing information, now includes a full-length image of President Donald Trump and criticizes the pandemic policies implemented under former president Joe Biden.

The site also targets Anthony Fauci, Biden`s former chief medical advisor, for advancing what it calls the `preferred nar-rative that Covid-19 originated naturally.` It presents five bullet poiwnts aimed at bolstering the lab leak theory, noting that Wuhan, the site of the first known coronavirus case, is also home to China`s `foremost SARS research lab` and has a history of conducting research at `inadequate biosafety levels.` `By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn`t,` the website said.

The lab-leak theory, once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, has recently gained mainstream traction in the United States.-AFP