{"id":17915,"date":"2020-05-05T12:16:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T03:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/05\/who-says-it-has-no-evidence-to-support-speculative-covid-19-lab-theory-pushed-by-us"},"modified":"2020-05-05T12:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T03:16:03","slug":"who-says-it-has-no-evidence-to-support-speculative-covid-19-lab-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17915","title":{"rendered":"WHO says it has no evidence to support &#8216;speculative&#8217; Covid-19 lab theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health body says any \u2018aggressive investigation of wrongdoing\u2019 regarding virus origins makes understanding it harder<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The World Health Organization says the United States government has not given any evidence to support Trump administration officials\u2019 \u201cspeculative\u201d claim that Covid-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, as China dismissed the theory as \u201cinsane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has repeatedly said that he has proof the virus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/04\/five-eyes-network-contradicts-theory-covid-19-leaked-from-lab\">originated in a laboratory<\/a> in Wuhan \u2013 whereas scientists believe it jumped from animals to humans at a wet market in the city last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/05\/who-says-it-has-no-evidence-to-support-speculative-covid-19-lab-theory-pushed-by-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health body says any \u2018aggressive investigation of wrongdoing\u2019 regarding virus origins makes understanding it harderCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization says the United States government has not given&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1069,415,472,554,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-donald-trump","category-mike-pompeo","category-trump-administration","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17916,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions\/17916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}