Pompeo accused China of withholding virus samples he said were needed for global vaccine research, and he demanded transparency. Pompeo also accused the WHO of being too slow to respond to the disease and said it “needs to still demand that there be an investigation” in China. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, addressing reporters in Beijing on Thursday, said China supported WHO efforts to investigate the origin of the pandemic. But she repeated a timeline of signals from France, Sweden and the US itself that the virus may not have emerged in China. “While scientists have not come to a conclusion, why is Secretary Pompeo drawing the hasty conclusion that the virus came from a Wuhan lab?

Source: The Telegraph May 07, 2020 21:45 UTC