China Says Pompeo Has No Evidence Virus Escaped From Wuhan Lab

  • Foreign ministry rejects Pompeo’s claim about disease’s origin
  • Beijing will support review of virus at ‘appropriate time’
The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Photographer: Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images
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China fired back at U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, saying he has no evidence to back up claims that the virus that causes Covid-19 escaped from a lab in the central city of Wuhan.