{"id":9109,"date":"2021-01-16T04:11:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118000\/covid-19-us-says-it-has-new-evidence-coronavirus-may-have-come"},"modified":"2021-01-16T04:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:11:46","slug":"covid-19-us-says-it-has-new-evidence-coronavirus-may-have-come-from-a-chinese-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/covid-19-us-says-it-has-new-evidence-coronavirus-may-have-come-from-a-chinese-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: US says it has new evidence coronavirus may have come from a Chinese laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"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\u2019s efforts to pressure Beijing over the virus\u2019s 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 \u2013 before the first identified case was identified in the city \u2013\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3118000\/covid-19-us-says-it-has-new-evidence-coronavirus-may-have-come\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s efforts to pressure Beijing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9110,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions\/9110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}