The Asian country
according to AFP, said America “doesn’t have any” evidence
China on Wednesday
hit back at United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, over claims that
Coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.
The Asian country
according to AFP, said America “doesn’t have any” evidence.
Pompeo said on
Sunday that there was “enormous evidence” to show that Coronavirus originated
in a lab in China, further fuelling tensions with Beijing over its handling of
the outbreak.
“I think this matter
should be handed to scientists and medical professionals, and not politicians,
who lie for their own domestic political ends,” said foreign ministry
spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, at a regular press briefing.
“Mr Pompeo
repeatedly spoke up but he cannot present any evidence. How can he? Because he
doesn’t have any,” she said.
Most scientists
believe the new virus, which emerged in China late last year, jumped from
animals to humans, possibly from a market in Wuhan selling exotic animals for
meat.
The World Health
Organisation said the US claims were “speculative”.
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