By AFPMore by this AuthorWashington,President Donald Trump's administration is urging an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it doesn't rule out that it came from a laboratory researching bats in Wuhan, China. But The Washington Post and Fox News both quoted anonymous sources who voiced concern that SARS CoV-2 may have come -- accidentally -- from a sensitive bioresearch centre in the metropolis. HIGHLY CONTAGIOUSAdvertisementMr Pompeo did not reject the reports and said that the United States knew that the Wuhan laboratory "contained highly contagious materials." Trump, asked about the laboratory theory at a news conference on Wednesday, said that "more and more, we're hearing the story" and that the United States was "doing a very thorough investigation." Neither Fox News nor The Washington Post said that the virus was spread deliberately or that the laboratory was definitively determined as the source.

Source: Daily Nation April 16, 2020 15:45 UTC