• Media China: Pompeo declares "crazy and evasive" virus origin
  • USA, Pompeo's accusations against China: "The virus comes from Wuhan's laboratory"

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May 04, 2020 "Speculations". So the WHO experts, during the usual briefing, defined the theories about an origin in a Chinese coronavirus laboratory and stressed that they had not received any evidence from the United States.

Kerkhove: "Virus of animal origin"
"From all the tests seen, more than 15 thousand genetic sequences, I believe that this virus is of animal origin". This was underlined by Dr. Maria Kerkhove of WHO, regarding the declarations of the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo according to which the virus could have been born in a Chinese laboratory. "There is a link with bats - he explained - we must understand the intermediate guest". 

WHO health emergency program leader Mike Ryan said about Pompeo's comments, "We can learn from Chinese scientists and exchange knowledge" but if this "becomes an aggressive investigation into wrong behavior, then it is a political problem, not a scientific one. Science must be at the center and a scientific research on the origins of the virus would be beneficial for everyone ". Ryan then adds in support of what was stated by Dr. Kerkhove: "Coronavirus is of natural origin, it is a zoonosis (an infectious disease of animals transmissible to humans), as happened in the past with Ebola and Sars. But if the United States have different data, the World Health Organization encourages you to share it. " "We don't know for sure all the steps" from animals to humans, Ryan concludes referring to the intermediate host of the microorganism. "This is important information" also for the study of drugs and vaccines.

Pompeo and Bannon in the crosshairs of the Chinese press: "Two lying clowns"
Il Quotidiano del Popolo, the press of the Chinese Communist Party, frontally attacks the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the former chief strategist of the White House, Steve Bannon , calling them "a pair of lying clowns" for the accusations made in recent days, and in the last few hours, against China. In an editorial published today, the CCP organ attacked Pompeo, who yesterday spoke of "enormous evidence" on the Wuhan laboratory as the origin of the coronavirus spread, stating that China has done "everything possible" to hide it. in the world. Pompeo, writes the CCP newspaper, "knows that he is lying and also knows that the international community knows that he is lying, but he is lying anyway". 

Bannon, who had recently criticized China, accusing it of the ongoing pandemic and asking for damages for thousands of billions of dollars is instead engaged in an attempt to "climb in politics". In another editorial, the most important Chinese newspaper, instead defines the former chief strategist of the White House "a living fossil of the Cold War". To achieve the goal of stigmatizing China on the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, is the conclusion of the People's Daily, "some politicians in the United States are no longer ashamed".