Bengaluru — Top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has called on China to release the medical records of nine people whose ailments might provide vital clues into whether Covid-19 first emerged as the result of a lab leak, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

“I would like to see the medical records of the three people who are reported to have got sick in 2019. Did they really get sick, and if so, what did they get sick with?” the report (https://www.ft.com/content/ab90cdfd-e7c4-496d-a75c-7aa93f6176fe) quoted Fauci as saying about three of the nine...

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