Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 1, 2020, in Washington, DC. - AFP
BEIJING (Xinhua): Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen Mark A. Milley said on Tuesday (May 5) that "we don't know" where the coronavirus originated.
"Did it come out of the virology lab in Wuhan, did it occur in the wet market there in Wuhan or did it occur somewhere else? And the answer to that is we don't know," the top US military officer told reporters in a Pentagon briefing when asked about the origin of Covid-19.
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