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well the issue of where this virus has come from is now becoming increasingly political not least because of the latest intervention by Donald Trump well let's bring in Roz Atkins to look at this for us hi Roz I know it's good to see you well explaining how this fire has started matters medically and politically we know it began in whoo-ha in China but we don't know how President Macross said things happened there that we don't know about and as Barbara's just been alluding to the Trump administration is repeatedly turning to this as you'll see in these clips starting with a question from a Fox News correspondent multiple sources are telling Fox News today that the United States government now has high confidence that while the coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus it emanated from a virology lab in Wuhan that because of lack safety protocols and in turn was infected who later infected her boyfriend and then went to the wet market in Wuhan where it began to spread does that correspond with what you have heard from well I don't want to say that John but I will tell you more and more we're hearing the story we know that there is the Wuhan Institute of biology just a handful of miles away from where the wet market was there's still lots to learn you should know that the United States government is working diligently to figure this out but what we're really into Martha we really need the Chinese government to open up now the lab in question is the Wuhan Institute of virology here's a picture of it from a government website and how she is Shayan fund from BBC Chinese on the work that it does according to the Institute's website is subjects of study include infectious diseases it also houses Asia's first protection level for lap which is the highest level of lab about viruses there are also a handful of different super labs around the world which studied the most dangerous viruses and it's worth mentioning that such allegations are not needed back in February information was trending on Chinese social media that the first kovat 19 patient was a researcher working at the lab but the Institute quickly denounced that rumor it says that the researcher had left the lab a few years ago and no one working there was infected by corporate 19 well today we've heard this from the Chinese government sure it was Iranian thought I'd like to remind you that WH air officials have repeatedly stated that there isn't any evidence that the new corona virus was produced in an laboratory many well-known medical experts in the world also believed that the so-called laboratory leak hypothesis has no scientific basis now it's true that the World Health Organization says the source of this virus is unknown and it says that all available evidence suggests it has a natural animal origin and is not a constructed virus but what about claims it was an animal virus that was accidentally released from this lab well that idea was given impetus by this Washington Post story this week it reported that two years ago US embassy officials visited the lab in Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety but some have taken issue with this report Jeremy Kannan Dyke led the u.s. government's response to the Ebola outbreak in the 2010s in this tweety argues the point is that the biology shows a lot of remaining uncertainty and leaves open a range of plausible explanations that don't involve a lab spillover and there is ample circumstantial evidence indicating a lab spillover is unlikely albeit not impossible and he used this meme to make his point now how this virus matter started matters for how we stop the next pandemic it also matters to us politics and to China's standing in the world which is why today it's right at the center of scientific research and an information war and however long we wait for an explanation of how this outbreak began inevitably the space that leaves will be filled with questions speculation and theories some without any facts to go with them and there's much more on that we ran lab Louis on the BBC website BBC comm slash news