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Covid-19: US says it has new evidence coronavirus may have come from a Chinese laboratory
The US said on Friday it had new information suggesting the Covid-19 pandemic could have emerged from a Chinese laboratory and not through contact with infected animals, the latest salvo in the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to pressure Beijing over the virus’s origins.Specifically, the US Department of State said it had obtained evidence that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick in the autumn of 2019 – before the first identified case was identified in the city –…