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More than 100,000 of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages from his time as health secretary have been obtained by The Daily Telegraph. The first batch shows that in April 2020 he rejected the advice of chief medical officer Chris Whitty to test all new care home residents for Covid, telling his advisers it “muddies the waters”. FBI chief Christopher Wray says the bureau believes Covid “most likely” originated in an accidental leak from a “Chinese government-controlled lab”. The US Energy Department has come to the same conclusion, but four other American government agencies still think the outbreak was the result of natural transmission. For the first time in history, a majority of American couples now meet online. Romance boffins at Stanford have found that 53% of heterosexual pairings met virtually, considerably more than “in a bar or restaurant” (23%) and “through friends” (15%).