Scott Morrison continues calls for investigation into origins of COVID-19

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on calls for an independent review into the origins of COVID-19 despite months of economic pain inflicted by China.

More than 70 per cent of Australia’s adult population have received one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while more than half have had two doses, Morrison told the United Nations General Assembly in a pre-recorded address on Friday.

But he said preventing future pandemics remained a…