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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday stepped up a US campaign to hold China accountable for the spread of the deadly coronavirus, asserting there is “enormous evidence” the virus originated in a laboratory in the city of Wuhan.
The high-security bio-containment facility, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has called such claims “impossible.”
Pompeo, speaking on ABC’s This Week, did not elaborate on what he also described as “significant amounts of evidence.” But Pompeo’s words clearly sought to buttress repeated criticism from Donald Trump about China’s role in the pandemic.
As acusações à China são cada vez mais pesadas e feitas por quem tem autoridade. Isso tem que ser levado a sério, não adianta a turma negar. https://t.co/gwMwcalwZ0
— Paulo Eduardo Martins (@PauloMartins10) May 4, 2020
A Department of Homeland Security report has found the Chinese government intentionally concealed the severity of the coronavirus from the international community while it stockpiled imports and decreased exports, according to an administration official. https://t.co/nxaXnvGIfZ
— CNN (@CNN) May 4, 2020