Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo said on Sunday there was "a significant amount of evidence" that the new
Coronavirus emerged from a Chinese laboratory, but did not dispute U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that it was not man-made.
"There is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan," Pompeo told ABC's "This Week," referring to the virus that emerged late last year in
China and has killed about 240,000 people around the world, including more than 67,000 in the
United States.
Pompeo then briefly contradicted a statement issued last Thursday by the top U.S. spy agency that said the virus did not appear to be man-made or genetically modified.