Coronavirus: US, China clash over coronavirus origins

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Australian intelligence agencies have grown increasingly concerned about the Trump administration’s efforts to link the virus to a Wuhan laboratory, saying it is hampering the push to eliminate dangerous wildlife wet markets.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said the Australian government did not have strong evidence linking the Wuhan lab to the virus.
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US President Donald Trump last week said he had seen evidence that gives him a “high degree of confidence” that the virus began at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

But the US government’s top infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, has dismissed the idea, saying all the scientific evidence suggests the virus began in bats and then spread to humans.

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