WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was confident the coronavirus might have originated in a Chinese virology laboratory, but decreased to describe the evidence, ratcheting up stress with Beijing over the origins of the deadly outbreak.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a presidential pronouncement stating a “Older Americans Month 2020” throughout an event about seniors and the coronavirus illness (COVID-19) pandemic in the East Space at the White Home in Washington, U.S., April 30,2020 REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Trump did not mince words at a White House occasion on Thursday, when asked if he had actually seen evidence that offered him a “high degree of confidence” the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
” Yes, yes I have,” he stated, decreasing to give specifics. “I can’t tell you that. I’m not permitted to inform you that.”
The Chinese state-backed Wuhan Institute of Virology has actually dismissed the allegations, and other U.S. authorities have downplayed their probability. Many e