President Donald Trump said Thursday without presenting any evidence that he has a high level of confidence that the coronavirus outbreak originated from a laboratory in China.
"I can't tell you I'm not allowed to tell you this," Trump said at a White House event when asked what evidence he had seen to see whether the virus was found in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China Has emerged from.
The laboratory is in an area that saw what is now the first outbreak of epidemics worldwide, infecting more than 3.2 million people.
Trump's remarks went far beyond a statement from the top US intelligence agency on Thursday, which stated for the first time that it was, "with broad scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified."
But, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the US intelligence network would "keep on thoroughly test developing data and intelligence to set up whether the flare-up started through contact with contaminated creatures or on the off chance that it was a research center in Wuhan Was the consequence of a mishap in"
Before Trump spoke on Thursday, The New York Times reported that senior officials of the Trump administration "pushed American spy agencies to hunt for evidence to support an unproven theory" that the Wuhan laboratory outbreak Was the point of Oring.
The Times reported 'President Trump as an exertion propels an open battle to censure China for the pandemic.'
Trump initially asked a reporter at the White House on Thursday about the origin of the virus, and replied, "You've heard all the different things. There are three or four different concepts of how it turned out."
The US president stated, 'We should have the answer that this is not the case in the future and how it feels about China.'
But he later questioned a reporter if he had 'seen anything that gave you a high degree of confidence, to the point that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the source of this virus?'
Trump responded, "Yes, I have," and then repeated that claim.
"I think the World Health Organization should be ashamed of itself because they are liking public relations for China," Trump added, adding that the International Health Agency was covering for China.
'This country' Trump said, referring to the United States, 'pays them [WHO] about $ 500 million per year, and China pays them $ 38 million per year.'
'They WHO are not making excuses when people make terrible mistakes, especially mistakes that are dying hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.'
Asked if he was suggesting that coronavirus was not naturally occurring, Trump said, "No."
Trump said, 'We're going to see where it is, where it comes from, theories from the lab, bats, bat type, here or not a lot of theories.' 'We have people watching it strongly, scientific people, people at Intel.'
But when pressured to give him a high degree of confidence to convince him that the virus originated from Wuhan Lab, Trump said, "I can't tell you this. I'm not allowed to tell you this." "
It has previously claimed that the WHO has withdrawn its travel ban from China in the Covid-19 outbreak. Trump later claimed that the WHO "pushed misinformation about China's virus, saying it is not communicable and there is no need for travel restrictions."
'The WHO voluntarily took China's assurances at face value, and they voluntarily took it at face value and protected the actions of the Chinese government, while praising China for so-called transparency.'
World health officials have said that the possibility of the virus came from a seafood market in Wuhan.
International officials said the virus originated in bats and then jumped on an "intermediate host" before infecting humans.
SARS, an old coronavirus that emerged in November 2002 and killed about 800 people worldwide in nine months, is also believed to have originated in bats before they spread from cats, and later, to humans.
There have been approximately 228,000 deaths worldwide, at least, since Covid-19, since the outbreak began.
In the United States, currently the epicenter of the epidemic, more than 1 million people have been infected, with approximately 61,000 deaths related to coronavirus.
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