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Western officials, researchers cast doubt on China lab virus leak theory

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-05-09 15:58

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci attends a coronavirus response meeting between US President Donald Trump and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, US, April 29, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]

"If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats, and what's out there now is very, very strongly leaning toward this [virus] could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated— the way the mutations have naturally evolved,"

Dr Anthony Fauci, the US's top infectious disease expert and a member of the White House coronavirus task force dismissed theories that the coronavirus was either manufactured or accidentally released from a Chinese lab.

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