US chief diplomat Pompeo backs coronavirus Wuhan lab claims
By DW
04 May 2020 |
7:00 am
What started as an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory has received a second major boost from the Trump administration. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China has a history of running substandard laboratories.
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