Virus Outbreak: Mike Pompeo pushes new allegation of China covering up origin of COVID-19


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Sun, Jan 17, 2021 page1 Virus Outbreak: Mike Pompeo pushes new allegation of China covering up origin of COVID-19 AFP, WASHINGTON and NEW DELHI US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said that there were COVID-19-like illnesses among staff at a Chinese virology institute in autumn 2019, casting further blame on Beijing as health experts arrived in the country to probe the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins. The top US diplomat in a statement urged the WHO team that landed on Thursday in Wuhan, where COVID-19 was first detected, to “press the government of China” on the “new information.” “The United...