US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declines to say whether he thought the virus had been intentionally released. COVID19
FROM THE LAB. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says there is 'enormous evidence' behind the claim that the coronavirus originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. File photo by Nicholas Kamm/Pool/AFP
But while highly critical of China's handling of the matter, Pompeo declined to say whether he thought the virus had been intentionally released. He has insisted that Beijing recklessly concealed important information about the outbreak and demanded that Beijing be held"accountable." Pompeo, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told ABC that he agreed with a statement Thursday from the US intelligence community in which it concurred"with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified."
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