Donald Trump said tonight that he had seen evidence the killer coronavirus originated in a lab in China. The US President said "Yes, yes I have", when asked if he had seen evidence that gave him a "high degree of confidence" the virus came from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus was said to have began in a meat market.
Trump did not mince his words at a White House event, but declined to describe the evidence, ratcheting up tensions with the Chinese government over the origins of the deadly disease. "I can't tell you that.
I'm not allowed to tell you that," said Trump. The Chinese state-backed Wuhan Institute of Virology has dismissed the allegations, and other U.S.