WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump has appeared to undercut his own intelligence agencies by suggesting that he has seen evidence the novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory.
Earlier, the US national intelligence director's office said it was still investigating the virus' origins. But the office said it had determined COVID-19 "was not manmade or genetically modified", the BBC reported.
China has rejected the lab theory and criticised the US response to COVID-19. Since emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of last year, the coronavirus is confirmed to have infected 3.2 million people and killed more than 230,000.
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