GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Monday that Washington had provided no evidence to support “speculative” claims by the US president that th...
The World Health Organization said Monday that Washington had provided no evidence to support “speculative” claims by the US president that the new coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.
But US President Donald Trump, increasingly critical of China’s management of the first outbreak, claims to have proof it started in a Wuhan laboratory. “If that data and evidence is available, then it will be for the United States government to decide whether and when it can be shared, but it is difficult for the WHO to operate in an information vacuum in that regard,“ he added.The UN health agency - which has also faced scathing criticism from Trump over accusations it initially downplayed the seriousness of the outbreak to shield China - has repeatedly said the virus clearly appears to have originated naturally from an animal source.
“We need to understand more about that natural origin, and particularly about intermediate hosts,“ Ryan said.
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