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President Biden's top intelligence chiefs have yet to determine how people first became infected with COVID-19, but they say they haven't ruled out the possibility that it escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. “It is absolutely accurate that the intelligence community does not know exactly where, when or how the COVID-19 virus was transmitted initially,” Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told lawmakers Wednesday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. “That is where we are right now, but we're continuing to work on this issue, and collect information, and do the best we can essentially to give you greater confidence in what that scenario is,” Haines said.
El cardenal italiano Angelo Sodano, de 77 años, fue nombrado nuevo decano del colegio de los cardenales por el papa Benedicto XVI. Ejerciendo aún la función de secretario de Estado del papa, Sodano pasa a ejercer el cargo que fue ocupado por el actual papa desde 1990. El cardenal francés Roger Etchegaray fue nombrado como su vice.