World leaders pledge $8bn to fight pandemic –as it happened
by Helen Sullivan (now and earlier), Kevin Rawlinson, from Science | The Guardian on (#5305A)
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is taking the lead in pressing a hard line against Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic, AFP reports.
Pompeo, in an interview Sunday on ABC, said there was enormous evidence" that the new coronavirus came out of a Wuhan lab - not a wet market, as most scientists suggest.
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