UPDATED. Trump is increasingly making Beijing's handling of the outbreak a major issue for his November re-election campaign. coronavirus
LAB. An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 17, 2020. Photo by Hector Retamal/AFPoriginated in a Chinese lab, as he threatened tariffs on Beijing over its role in the global pandemic.
But the good news was tempered by data showing a further haemorrhaging of jobs, with 30 million Americans newly unemployed since lockdown began, as businesses lose customers. Scientists believe the killer virus jumped from animals to humans, emerging in China late last year, possibly from a market in Wuhan selling exotic animals for meat.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said analysts"will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine" the origin of the outbreak. Last month foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said:" officials have repeatedly stated that there is no single evidence that the new coronavirus was produced in a laboratory."
When asked about reports that he could cancel US debt obligations to China, Trump said he could"do it differently" and act in"more of a forthright manner".Eurozone gloom
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