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The US intelligence services announced Thursday that they had concluded that the new coronavirus originated in China but "was not created by man or genetically modified . "
Intelligence services are still seeking "to determine whether the epidemic started from contact with infected animals or was the result of a laboratory accident in Wuham," the Chinese city where the pandemic emerged, the intelligence directorate said in a statement.
Washington investigated weeks ago whether the coronavirus originated in the P4 lab - the highest level in biosecurity - in Wuhan. A theory - so far without any basis - that has circulated since the talk of "strange pneumonia" began in this Chinese city in early January.
Trump admitted that he had spoken to Xi Jinping about this laboratory, but did not elaborate. Later, the chief of American diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, continued with the subject in an interview on Fox News. "We know that the Virology Institute in that city is a few kilometers from the market where the first infections occurred. We need the Chinese government to be honest and explain exactly how this virus spread," said Pompeo.
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