“I think this matter should be handed to scientists and medical professionals, and not politicians, who lie for their own domestic political ends.”
In this file photo US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 22, 2020. – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said shots fired May 3, 2020, from North Korea towards the South in the DMZ that divides the peninsula were believed to have been “accidental.” “Handful of shots came across from the north; we think those were accidental,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”South Koreans did return fire.
Conspiracy theories that the virus came from a maximum-security virology lab in Wuhan have swirled since earlier this year but were brought into the mainstream last month by US government officials. “Mr Pompeo repeatedly spoke up but he cannot present any evidence. How can he? Because he doesn’t have any,” she said.
But countries including the United States and Australia have called for an investigation into how the disease transformed into a global pandemic. The envoy, Chen Xu, also said China has to counter the “absurd and ridiculous” US politicisation of the new coronavirus, adding that the “right atmosphere” was needed for an invitation to take place.
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