Experts: Accusation that Covid-19 virus originates in lab is false and wrong


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BEIJING: The accusations that the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak causing the pandemic was created in the laboratory or in a laboratory in China's Wuhan are false and wrong, several French scientists have said.

Driven by a malicious intention of scapegoating China to cover up the lax US response to Covid-19, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been repeatedly calling the novel coronavirus "Chinese virus" or "Wuhan virus" in public, largely accountable for the virus disinformation.

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