The theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan has emerged as a highly contentious claim since the outbreak began.
an explosive allegation Wednesday, that “enormous evidence” linked the coronavirus outbreak to a laboratory in Wuhan, China, now saying “we don’t have certainty”—the latest turn of a controversial theory that started at the very beginning of COVID-19 outbreak:Department in Washington, DC, May 6, 2020.
- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday renewed his widely contested charge that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Chinese laboratory, but acknowledged there was no certainty."We don't have certainty, and there is significant evidence that this came from the laboratory. Those statements can both be true," Pompeo told reporters.
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