Donald Trump has been heaping blame on China for a global pandemic that has killed at least 60,000 people in the United States. Photo: ReutersUS President Donald Trump has said he is confident the coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese virology lab. The Chinese state-backed Wuhan Institute of Virology has dismissed the allegations, and other US officials have downplayed their likelihood. He declined to say whether he held Chinese President Xi Jinping responsible for what he feels is misinformation about the emergence of the coronavirus. Trump told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that he was looking at different options in terms of consequences for Beijing over the virus.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 01, 2020 00:02 UTC